Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a new strain of coronavirus. WHO first identified this strain on December 2019 in a cluster with pneumonia symptoms in Wuhan city, Hubei province of China. There are several sources of transmission for the spread of COVID-19 but dental care procedures are under surveillance by health care authorities all over the world. Dental health care providers are the most exposed to aerosols transmissible infectious agent, and so at the vanguard of changes related to the pandemic on how to organize the efficient dental care to the providers. There are several reports, suggestions and guidelines set by health care authorities on how this infection could be transmitted through dental services and measures to be taken to protect the patients, staff and healthcare professionals providing dental service. The analysis was conducted to compare the guidelines which includes documents of OSHA and of CDC, an agency of the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services [1].
Contamination and disease control details and other risk relieving measures were reviewed under parameters of consistency, overlaps and similarities, then grouped together according to sectoral areas which covers all realm of managing a dental healthcare facilities [1]. This article reviews understanding about coronavirus and its transmission and the “Pandemic-5 Framework for COVID-19 Control in Dentistry” which can make a comprehensive decision-making simplified from a clinical view [1].
Keywords: COVID-19; Dental Office; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Digital sucking is classified as a deleterious habit of non-nutritive sucking. It presents itself as a non-isolated symptom resulting from conflicts or emotional instability, becoming a personal pattern of self-satisfaction. Its action can be defined by negative pressure with relatively intense force that can culminate in damage to the teeth and stomatognathic system, such as tooth malposition, maxillary atresia, malocclusion, ogived palate, reduction of nasal cavity resulting in mouth breathing, and subsequently carious lesions and periodontal diseases already in childhood. The severity of these alterations is directly related to the duration, frequency and intensity of the habit. The purpose of this article is to present a case of a 6-year-old child with the habit of digital sucking causing cutaneous hyperkeratosis on the ventral surface of the left thumb phalanx. Mouth habit deleterious, digital sucking and therapeutic conducts for the elimination of the habit were discussed.
Keywords:Habits; Finger Sucking; Malocclusion; Pediatric Dentistry; Open Bite

Peripheral ossifying fibroma is classified as a non-neoplastic reactional proliferative process. The lesion arouses interest in the specialty of Periodontics, as it almost exclusively affects the gingiva, which is one of the hypotheses of etiopathogenesis of the lesion. Clinically, peripheral ossifying fibroma presents as an exophytic nodule or tumor mass; erythematous or pinkish in color; pedunculated or sessile base; smooth surface, or under trauma, it can be ulcerated, presenting painful symptoms. It can reach variable dimensions. Among the histopathological characteristics, it may present in the stroma, foci of calcified material that are sometimes visible radiographically. The lesion may be associated with poor oral hygiene, periodontal diseases, and the presence of dental calculus. The treatment of choice is surgical excision, and local irritating factors should be eliminated. Other associated treatments may be necessary, depending on the case. The performance of free gingival or connective tissue grafts has been reported in the literature. The recurrence rate of the lesion is relatively high, around 20%, usually related to the persistence of local irritating factors. The purpose of this article is to present a case of peripheral ossifying fibroma on the lingual surface of the mandibular incisors in a female patient who underwent surgical excision and free gingival graft. The clinical, radiographic, and histopathological features; incidence and frequency; etiopathogenesis; differential diagnosis; and treatment modalities were discussed.
Keywords:Peripheral Ossifying Fibroma; Free Gingival Graft; Gingiva; Oral Diagnosis; Oral Pathology

As we know that now a day a disease which is known by the name Covid 19 is being spreading so rapidly that no one has control over it. There are several sources through which this virus is spreading, though these sources are known to everyone which includes through sneezing, coughing and close contact of two persons as they have been highlighted by media and other professional bodies like WHO, but the main issue is that people forget to follow the standard operating procedures (SOPs) as defined by higher authorities to overcome/ from spreading of this virus and people even don’t know in which fields there is higher risk of its transmission may be due to lack of awareness in between them.