The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected the whole world and has now been declared a Pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). Although the mortality rate of this virus is low, it is especially potent against people with underlying systemic conditions. Dentistry is a profession where the doctor, as well as the dental staff, works in close vicinity to the patient’s mouth. Dental education has two core components; didactic and clinical training (including patient care). Dental education has been interrupted in the past due to certain events (Arab Spring and SARS outbreak). Currently, the pandemic of COVID-19 has disrupted dental education globally as most of the dental schools and universities in the world have closed amidst the COVID-19 outbreak. Teledentistry is a subspecialty of telemedicine that helps in the provision of educational activities, advice, and diagnosis about treatment over a distance with the help of technology like video conferencing. The current overview summarizes the potential role of teledentistry in continuing the dental educational process in terms of delivery of didactic components, clinical training, and patient care. It can be concluded that with modern updated devices and tools, teledentistry can be an effective way to prevent disruption of dental education and it can be utilized in continuing the dental educational process in this critical time of the COVID-19 outbreak. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.7.3125 How to cite this:Farooq I, Ali S, Moheet IA, AlHumaid J. COVID-19 outbreak, disruption of dental education, and the role of teledentistry. Pak J Med Sci. 2020;36(7):---------. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.7.3125 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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机译：2019年（Covid-19）的新型冠状病毒疾病影响了全世界，现已被世界卫生组织（世卫组织）宣布大流行。虽然这种病毒的死亡率低，但对具有潜在的全身状况的人特别有效。牙科是一个专业，医生以及牙科员工，靠近患者的嘴巴。牙科教育有两个核心组件;教学和临床训练（包括患者护理）。由于某些事件（阿拉伯春天和SARS爆发），过去牙科教育被打断。目前，Covid-19流行病在全球范围内破坏了牙科教育，因为世界上大多数牙科学校和大学都在Covid-19爆发中关闭。 eleedentrics是远程医疗的亚特点，有助于在视频会议等技术的帮助下提供关于远程治疗的教育活动，咨询和诊断。目前的概述总结了曝气技术在继续牙科教育过程中的潜在作用，在发出教学成分，临床训练和患者护理方面。可以得出结论，通过现代更新的设备和工具，淡灯技术可以是防止牙科教育中断的有效途径，并且可以在Covid-19爆发的临界时间继续持续牙科教育过程。 DOI：https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.7.3125如何引用这一点：Farooq I，Ali S，Moheet Ia，Alhumaid J. Covid-19爆发，牙科教育的破坏以及临床的作用。 Pak J Med Sci。 2020; 36（7）：---------。 DOI：https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.7.3125这是一个开放式访问文章，根据Creative Commons归因许可（http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0）分发只要正确引用原始工作，允许在任何媒体中不受限制使用，分发和再现。
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