Does the evidence justify changing practice after Indian Dental Association’s Preventive Guidelines for Dental Professionals on the Coronavirus Threat?

DentalReach Academic Editor:

Separate association from causation and communicate absolute risk where possible. Confounding, temporality and reverse causality may materially change the conclusion.

DentalReach Clinical Contributor:

In the light of WHO declaring COVID-19 virus to be a pandemic Indian Dental Association (IDA) recommends preventative measures for dental professionals. Interpretation should consider design, recruitment, comparator, bias, confounding, effect size, uncertainty and follow-up before changing patient care.

DentalReach Practice Perspective:

Clinical transfer depends on matching the evidence to the patient, intervention, comparator, outcome, operator and care environment.