Ban all non-emergency dental treatment during the COVID-19 crisis.

Dental professionals are the most exposed vocation, carrying out treatments which creates aerosols. The COVID-19 virus has been shown to survive 3 hours in the air after aerosol treatments and is highly infectious. The masks routinely used are not effective enough for this virus.

This petition was rejected on 6th Apr 2020 as the proposed action is already occurring

The Petition Committee commented:
Since you started your petition the NHS has advised all dental practices to stop and defer all routine, non-urgent dental care: https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/03/issue-3-preparedness-letter-for-primary-dental-care-25-march-2020.pdf You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here: NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

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