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CPHA: Evidence to support safe return to clinical practice by oral health professionals in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • 16 Jun 2021
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Webinar

Canadian oral health practitioners have returned to clinical practice in a very different environment to the one they left prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in the domain of infection control and prevention. Oral health professional organizations, institutions, regulatory bodies and those in clinical care settings, in all Canadian jurisdictions, are making decisions each day on how to best care for patients and guide the professions in the context of the return to clinical practice during the pandemic. Further, they are having to make these decisions in a highly complex, rapidly evolving environment, based at times on incomplete scientific information.

In light of this, the Office of the Chief Dental Officer of Canada (OCDOC) commissioned staff at the Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University to draft a comprehensive knowledge product concerning key issues that inform the provision of oral health care by relevant providers in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. Around this work, the OCDOC then convened a representative multidisciplinary, knowledge-based group from the national oral health professional and federal government health domains, to work collaboratively to generate a single, high-level national document on the current evidence. The original work was published in August 2020, followed by updates published in December 2020 and April 2021.

This panel will discuss the process and outcomes of this work, and then discuss other ongoing research related to the safe delivery of quality oral health care to Canadians in the COVID-19 environment. Drs. Allison, Quiñonez, Rock and Siqueira are all currently engaged in a substantial program of COVID-19 related research, funded by the PHAC COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, and by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.


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