As dentist offices begin to reopen across Alberta, there are growing concerns about safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Now we are scrambling to try to get orders filled.” The owner of The Edge Dental Hygiene Centre in Calgary said guidance from the colleges that oversee dentists, assistants and hygienists is unclear on how to provide treatments for non-emergency procedures, which are due to start across the province soon. “With a dental hygiene treatment, we create a lot of aerosols.
Trying to mitigate those aerosols and keep our patients safe and our staff and ourselves safe while we’re working is a real problem right now for everyone,” Johnston-Dore said. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] Curre