Highlights ■ The quantity of dental procedures in prisons differs across Brazilian regions. ■ Prisoners’ access to dental procedures was limited even prior to the pandemic. ■ Preventive, urgent, and dental extraction procedures exhibited increases. ■ Restorative and periodontic procedures did not exhibit statistically significant changes. ABSTRACT Objective: This study compared the productivity of prison oral health teams during the COVID-19 crisis (2020–2022) with the previous three-year period (2017–2019) to identify the number and type of dental procedures performed. Methods: […]

ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic imposed restrictive measures on dentistry in different regions of the world, ranging from stoppage of care to only permission for urgent and emergency dental services. Thus, new biosafety guidelines for resuming activities, whether in single dental offices, large clinics or dental education activities, are urgently required. In this sense, herein, guidelines that incorporate common points of the main protocols found in the literature for the resumption of dental activities at their different levels, whether in the […]