Ultrasonography as a diagnostic aid for a neonate with gingival swelling in a COVID-19 neonatal intensive care unit.

Autor: Kakade A; Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Nair Hospital Dental College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India., Deshmukh B; Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Nair Hospital Dental College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India., Agarwal A; Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Nair Hospital Dental College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India., Malik S; Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, BYL Nair Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India., Shetty DS; Department of Radiology, BYL Nair Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India., Wade PA; Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, BYL Nair Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India., Shetty A; Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Nair Hospital Dental College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of the Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry [J Indian Soc Pedod Prev Dent] 2021 Jan-Mar; Vol. 39 (1), pp. 101-103.
DOI: 10.4103/jisppd.jisppd_532_20
Abstrakt: COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all the aspects of life and has emerged as the biggest challenge to the health-care sector. Dental fraternity has also taken its significant impact since the transmission of disease is primarily through aerosol droplets. Management of infants with orofacial anomalies such as natal and neonatal teeth born to COVID-19-positive mothers is another challenge due to unavailability of dental facilities in the isolation wards. In such unforeseen circumstances, out-of-routine approaches such as extraoral mandibular ultrasonography were performed for the management of a congenital intraoral swelling in an infant and are being described in this case report.
Competing Interests: None
Databáze: MEDLINE