Ultrasonography as a diagnostic aid for a neonate with gingival swelling in a COVID-19 neonatal intensive care unit

• Main Authors: Adesh Kakade, Bhagyashree Deshmukh, Agrima Agarwal, Sushma Malik, Devdas S Shetty, Poonam A Wade, Aaishwarya Shetty
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2021-01-01
• Series: Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry
• Subjects: covid-19 neonate; extraoral ultrasonography; gingival swelling; neonatal teeth
• Online Access: http://www.jisppd.com/article.asp?issn=0970-4388;year=2021;volume=39;issue=1;spage=101;epage=103;aulast=Kakade

COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all the aspects of life and has emerged as the biggest challenge to the health-care sector. Dental fraternity has also taken its significant impact since the transmission of disease is primarily through aerosol droplets. Management of infants with orofacial anomalies such as natal and neonatal teeth born to COVID-19-positive mothers is another challenge due to unavailability of dental facilities in the isolation wards. In such unforeseen circumstances, out-of-routine approaches such as extraoral mandibular ultrasonography were performed for the management of a congenital intraoral swelling in an infant and are being described in this case report.