PPE mask wear: how dental nurses break down the barriers in dentistry

Although, according to a news story last month, PPE isn’t all bad. The romantic tale of a couple of NHS health care workers who met while working on an intensive care unit hit the headlines last month.

The two frontline workers told a newspaper that it was the eye contact between them that helped along their relationship when they met working on the intensive care unit at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

They confessed they simply ‘communicated through their eyes’ behind their masks and ‘connected immediately’.

Whilst most dental team’s experience of wearing PPE is not quite so joyful, this uplifting tale does raise an important point – that there is no excuse for poor communication in any healthcare environment. Even more so as we deliver care during global health crisis.