Dr. Joy Carmichael examined the waiting room at her clinic, the “new normal” for her dentistry practice. There are two chairs in the rectangular-shaped room – one in the middle of a long wall, the other on a shorter end wall – in a space that used to seat nine.
It’s one of countless changes patients will see when dental clinics like Carmichael’s KV Dental open for business for the first time in nearly two months, as early as Wednesday.
The New Brunswick Dental Society said it made the decision to close its members’ practices prior to the province declaring a state of emergency in mid-March, in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.