Guidelines for Secondary and Tertiary Dental Care During Pandemic Outbreak

DG of Health Services and Programmes

Acknowledgement

DGSMC would like to thank and appreciate the great efforts of the staff of the Dental & OMFS Department at AI-Nahdha Hospital who participated in writing up these guidelines:

  1. Dr. Omar Nasim Khan

  2. Dr. Khalid AI-Amri

  3. Dr. Mohammed AI-Nabhani

  4. Dr. Ahmed Al-Hashmi

  5. Dr. Abdulrahman AI-Azri

  6. Dr. Mahmood Al-Salmi

  7. Dr. Said Al-Rashdi

  8. Dr. Ali Al-Mashaikhi

  9. Dr. Hamad Al-Harthy

  10. Dr. Salma AI-Jahdhami

  11. Dr. Mohammed Al-Harthy

  12. Dr. Khamis Al-Bulushi

  13. Dr. Shaikha Al-Marhubi

  14. Dr. Nadia AI-Kindi

  15. Dr Nasser AI-Khaldi

  16. Dr Afrah Al-Jabri

  17. Dr. Zaher Al-Riyami

  18. Dr. Badar Monir Zaki

  19. Dr. Batool Qasim Fadhil

  20. Dr. Laila Al-Jadidi

  21. Dr Sulaiman Al-Ghafri

  22. Dr Hussain Al-Lawati

  23. Dr. Rasha Abdwani

  24. Dr Ahmed AI-Bulushi

Acronyms:

MOH

Ministry of Health

DGSMC

Directorate General of Specialized Medical Care

OMFS

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

TMJ

Temporomandibular Joint

RME

Rapid Maxillary Expanders

SARPE

Surgically Assisted Rapid Palatal Expansion

IMF

Inter Maxillary Fixation

OPM

Oral Pathology Medicine

RRF

Retrograde Root Filling

1 - Introduction