Oral Manifestations of Covid-19: A Critical Review

Abstract

The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has proven to be an immense public health concern affecting various parts of the human biologic systems. The baffling disparities pertaining to the symptoms experienced by each afflicted individual present a difficult challenge to the medical community. The oral cavity is certainly not an exception.  The oral effects noted could be either direct effects of the virus itself or the result of an indirect effect of the virus. Although the virus is still of utmost concern around the world, the study of its effects on the human body, including the oral cavity, unquestionably remains a work in progress. COVID-19 has caused a pandemic and it still going quite strong. This disease has many general or constitutional manifestations, among which oral manifestations can also be present. These manifestations are often non-specific and can occur in any viral infections as well. Hence, they have to be recognized distinctly by the dentist as well as Laboratory personnel. So here we have tried to collect available data regarding this, in the form of a review