Dental Services: Coronavirus
(asked on 21st October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of enabling covid-19 testing of patients attending for dental treatment to (a) eliminate the risk of asymptomatic patients attending for treatment and (b) support the recovery of dental treatment services.
This question was answered on 2nd March 2021
We will continue to work closely with the dentistry sector to review whether any of the available testing technologies could be appropriately and safely deployed to further eliminate the risk associated with asymptomatic patients attending for treatment.