With talks of loosening lockdown measures underway, will dental practices be in the first wave of re-openings? The nature of dentistry doesn’t allow for social distancing from patients, so it came as no surprise on March 24th that practices were closed to stop the spread of Covid-19 as part of a temporary lockdown in the UK.
Following an early lockdown, Denmark re-opened its dental practices on April 20th, having re-opened schools a week earlier. In Switzerland and Norway, dentists went back to work on April 27th, following seven weeks in lockdown.
Following Boris Johnson's speech on Sunday, it is unclear when dental practices will open, but they could open in June along with other retail services.