Abstract: Since its appearance in December 2019, the new Corona virus made the world living an unexpected hard period, putting health authorities affront a big challenge especially in countries with fragile health system. In Algeria, the fragile health system and the unnecessary delay in announcing crucial measures have led to a huge lack of PCR test imposing health worker to detect Corona virus cases with clinical and imaging features. Dysgeusia, Dysosmia and aphthous are the most common oral signs of Covid19 infection’s . Oral manifestations included also oral dryness, pulla, hemorrhagic crust, vesicule, , spontaneous bleeding, petechiae and white plaques. The most common sites of Covid-19 virus oral manifestation's are tongue(40%) , labial mucosa ( 36%), palat, gingiva and buccal mucosa. Reported in relationship with pulmonary and other extrapulmonary manifestations , the most common symptoms found are Dysgeusia ( 77% ) and dysosmia ( 64% ), oral lesions including aphthous( 34.4%), unilateral commissural fissures (30.5%), fissured tongue ( 19.5%) and erythema. At ( 88% ), oral lesions were symptomatic, approximately equals in both genders (Male 50.7% , Female 49.3% ). Stressed patients, patients with older age, immunosuppression and bad oral hygiene are more concerned by these manifestations. Although that these oral lesions can be directly due to Coronavirus infection or secondary resulting from the patient's immunity and systemic condition , it helped to create a new method of Covid19 detection's , especially when the lack of PCR tests was flagrant in Algeria.
Keywords: Covid-19, Oral lesions, PCR test, Dysgeusia, Aphthous, Dysosmia, Detection, Prevention, Contagiousness.
Title: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW: THE ROLE OF ORAL MANIFESTATIONS IN THE DETECTION OF COVID-19 DISEASE IN ALGERIA
Author: Rais Mohammed Amir, Moussa Abdelwahab, Dib Meriem, Djebrit Chahinez, Hamzi Fella
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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