Dentistry clinics, like many businesses, shut down operations in mid-March when the coronavirus pandemic took hold of Canada.
Two months later, they are wrestling with how to reopen and stay safe — Natalie Archer included. “It’s going to be a gamechanger for dentistry,” said the Toronto-based dentist. “Everything is going to be slow.
A slow, steady, deliberate approach.” Being health-care professionals, the move to shut down clinics concerned some dentists.
Many continued to perform emergency procedures, but the vast majority of services were halted. “There’s no social distancing in dentistry,” Archer said, especially when the virus spreads easily from mouths and noses.