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Covid-19 crisis – dental nurses on the frontline: a report

​The coronavirus has devastated the world and thrown a global curve ball to healthcare everywhere – and dentistry is no exception.

As routine dental care ended throughout the UK, news spread of the need to redeploy members of the dental team to help in the fight against Covid-19.

In England, volunteers have been asked to respond to an NHS survey in a bid to boost numbers coping with the devastating effects, whilst some dentists and teams have already stepped forward to help with local urgent and emergency care.

Here, we invite two dental nurses to share their experiences on the frontline.

Amanda’s experience

Amanda Hunter works as a dental nurse on the paediatric department at London’s King's College Hospital. She qualified as a dental nurse in 1992 and subsequently gained additional qualifications in radiography, inhalation and intravenous sedation, oral health education and implantology.

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