Montero-Aguilar M

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As dental professionals we are familiarized with all the necessary measures to assure the safety of our patients, the dental staff, ourselves and our families. Living and working through this pandemic, COVID-19 has reminded us how fragile the symbiosis between microorganisms and humans is and it has driven us to face new challenges to maintain safety measures. Change, in general, involve a certain amount of fear due to the uncertainty of a particular circumstance, so it’d be natural to feel apprehension as we start going back to our practices in the midst of a pandemic. As it pertains to SARS-CoV-2, we’ve yet to understand a good deal about this virus and how it affects our health. We still need to figure out how to develop new diagnostic tools that are more efficient and accessible to all. Potentially effective treatments for COVID-19 are being tested to reduce the hospitalization time and the mortality rate. And big strides are being made to produce a vaccine which could prevent us from getting sick or spread the virus. Time will be of great aid to learn more about the virus, and the prevention and treatment of this disease, but in the meantime, dentists need to embrace change and move forward.