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N.S. opens emergency dental clinics to provide care during pandemic

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If you need emergency dental care in Nova Scotia during the coronavirus pandemic, you’ll now need to go to a designated emergency clinic.

The province’s dental board updated its protocols after a case of community transmission of COVID-19 was confirmed on Monday.

The board says emergency dental treatment can only be provided at designated emergency clinics as of 11:59 p.m. Tuesday. As part of the province’s state of emergency, dentists have been told since March 21 that they can no longer practice in their offices unless they deem it necessary to perform an emergency procedure.

For now, the designated emergency clinics include the Dalhousie University Faculty of Dentistry, the oral and maxillofacial surgery clinic at the Victoria General

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