{"title":"An Epidemic during Covid 19 Pandemic - Are We Prepared?","authors":"Dr. Ashok Lingappa","doi":"10.12944/edj.03.01.01","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"As per the published literature till September 2020, the only oral manifestations of the Covid infection are loss of smell and taste sensation. These could be due to the direct effects of tropism of virus to tongue and oral mucous membrane.2, 3 Lateron there were emergence of secondary infections and various oral manifestations varying from ulcers to devastating fungal infections like mucormycosis.","PeriodicalId":11858,"journal":{"name":"ENVIRO Dental Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ENVIRO Dental Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12944/edj.03.01.01","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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As per the published literature till September 2020, the only oral manifestations of the Covid infection are loss of smell and taste sensation. These could be due to the direct effects of tropism of virus to tongue and oral mucous membrane.2, 3 Lateron there were emergence of secondary infections and various oral manifestations varying from ulcers to devastating fungal infections like mucormycosis.