We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Exposure to Biological Fluids in Dental Practice—Narrative Review on Appropriate Risk Assessment to Guide Post-Exposure Management.
- Authors
Săndulescu, Mihai; Nicolescu, Mihnea Ioan; Funieru, Cristian; Şahin, Gülşen Özkaya; Săndulescu, Oana
- Abstract
Accidental exposure to blood or other biological fluids is a common occurrence in dentistry, and its post-exposure management is a key component of infection prevention and control programs designed to prevent the transmission of blood-borne pathogens such as hepatitis B and C viruses (HBV, HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This narrative review aims to comprehensively review the risk assessment process for each of these pathogens at all steps of the epidemiological process, i.e., source–exposure route–receptive person, in order to provide a better understanding of the delicate differences that influence the transmission risk and that drive the individualized post-exposure management.
- Subjects
PRACTICE of dentistry; HIV; RISK assessment; INFECTION prevention; HEPATITIS B virus; INFECTION control; POSTHARVEST diseases
- Publication
Pathogens, 2023, Vol 12, Issue 7, p968
- ISSN
2076-0817
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/pathogens12070968