World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

ABSTRACT

Population quarantine and curfews were extreme measures that governments around the world had to implement along with a general context of preventive measures and policies to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments focused on various public health policies such as social distancing, wearing a mask, frequent hand wash, and city lockdown as the only solution to contain the virus until the vaccine's availability. Dental practice is classified as a high-risk method of transmission and cross-infection because it involves close contact with the patient while examining the nose and pharynx, so the dental clinics were closed during COVID-19 pandemic. Dentistry forms an important part of our healthcare system, which has been severely compromised during the last COVID-19 pandemic, so appear the need of apply telemedicine into routine dental practice. Telemedicine of dental services is the remote facilitation of dental care especially orthodontic services, . Telemedicine can be integrated into routine dental practice as it offers a wide range of applications such as remote triage of suspected COVID-19 patients for orthodontic following up and reducing unnecessary exposure to healthy or uninfected patients by reducing their visits to already overburdened dental offices. Telemedicine had significant effect on following up and assessment the orthodontic state among orthodontic patients under the COVID-19 pandemic disease.