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Managing early childhood caries with silver diamine fluoride in the COVID-19 context: case report Luis Raziel Martagón Cabrera Fabio Gregorio Arriola Pacheco Dental Update 2024 49:6, 707-709.
Authors
Luis Raziel MartagónCabrera
DDS
Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Latin University of America, Morelia, México
COVID-19 is challenging modern dentistry, obliging all professionals to look for treatment strategies that are in accordance with health and ethical standards, so as to avoid virus transmission in the dental office. In recent years, paediatric dentistry has benefited from minimally invasive techniques to prevent and treat early childhood caries. Silver diamine fluoride (SDF) is a material that follows this philosophy because it provides professionals preventive and arresting actions for carious lesions in a practical and effective way. The present case details the management of a preschool-age patient who attended the dental office due to an emergency during the pandemic. The patient's emergency was resolved, but due to the diagnosis of severe early childhood caries, other mild and moderate carious, lesions were managed with SDF with the objective of avoiding future pulpal lesion development. The aim of this case is to raise awareness among dentists who treat children to consider the biological benefits of SDF in situations, such as the current contingency, as well as the benefits of mitigating the aesthetic effects thanks to the use of potassium iodide.
CPD/Clinical Relevance: The use of silver diamine fluoride in a paediatric patient with early childhood caries is highlighted.
Article
The global pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and its disease, COVID-19, is accompanied by some of the most difficult challenges in modern dentistry, and has brought along with it a need for adaptation and resiliency in clinical practice.1 Dentistry is positioned as one of the professions with the highest risk of infection and transmission (dentist to patient and vice versa) due to the necessary use of instruments that emit aerosols in certain procedures, therefore, options that allow providing the necessary care in a safe way for all involved should be sought.2,3 Although children are potentially asymptomatic carriers of the virus, it is our duty to continue servicing them.4,5 As always, paediatric dentistry needs to be efficient, providing care that ensures all patients' oral health needs are met in a safe manner for all involved.1,5
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