024 - The Official OSAP Podcast with Michelle Lee

This week on The Official OSAP Podcast Michelle Lee is joined by Nancy Dewhirst. Nancy and Michelle recorded this 2 part episode live from Chicago Midwinter and are bringing you the information you need to know about masks and the Coronavirus. Nancy Dewhirst is a nationally recognized speaker, writer, and an authority on dental safety. She is a Professor at West Coast University in Anaheim, CA. She also lectures and gives hands-on clinics all over the United States. She is passionate, eloquent and up-to-date on the newest developments in the Dental field. Be sure to join us next week for part 2. 

 

Episode Highlights

• Coronavirus breakdown
• Treatment Protocol 
• Quarantine and isolation strategies 
• How dental offices should prepare for viruses
• Masks 

 

Quotes

 

“It kills about 15% of those that are more susceptible”

 

“That means most people survive, look at it that way” 

 

“It's really not as bad even as the common flu in term of number of people that die” 

 

“CDC says no one strategy works, you need to combine them” 

 

“CDC currently thinks that using the flu as a model does make sense, as long as we realize there are factors we don't know, and therefor we need to combine our strategies” 

 

“The staff wasn’t prepared for this, and they are being put at risk to care for the guests” 

 

“Every office by now should have implemented respiratory, hygiene, cough etiquette”

 

Links

 

Nancy Dewhirst: http://www.nancyandrewsrdh.net/bio.html 

 

The Dental Podcast Network Channel One homepage:

http://dentalpodcastnetworkchannelone.otcpn.libsynpro.com/

The Dental Podcast Network Channel Two homepage:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dental-podcast-networks-channel-two/id1478530429

OSAP’s homepage:

https://www.osap.org/

Michelle Lee’s email:

mlee@osap.org