<p>​</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Istanbul Aydın University Faculty of Dentistry Dentaydın Dental Hospital Endodontics Department Academic Member Dr. Lecturer Ece Çalışkan</strong> stated &quot;It is an understandable situation that people delay their dental health controls during COVID-19 pandemic. However, you don&#39;t need to be afraid. Dental clinics provide the most strict rules of hygiene and infection control standards.&quot;</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>&quot;MOUTH IS THE KEY OF RESPIRATORY PASSAGE&quot;</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Endodontist Dr. Ece Çalışkan </strong>said &quot;COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented global community health crisis. As is known, mouth is the key of respiratory passage and one of the main entrances. It became known by everybody that mouth is one of the important access ways for coronavirus to get into body. Thus, the importance of oral health is proved one more time via this pandemic. It is possible to say that ignoring oral health and dental treatment increase possibility of COVID-19 and other harmful virus and bacteria infections. Coronavirus spreads via respiration droplets when an infected person sneezes, coughs and speaks. We, dentists, are very successful in infection control and safety. Dentists work with many easily contagious disease for years. Thus, we give great importance to wear mask, control cross infection, and sterilization in treatments for many years.&quot;</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>&quot;HEALTH STARTS IN MOUTH&quot;</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Endodontist Dr. Ece Çalışkan </strong>stated &quot;We took all the necessary precautions from the beginning until now of pandemic. I&#39;d like to say that our dentists and patients have minimum risk of getting <strong>COVID-19 </strong>when new safety protocols. It must be known once again that delaying routine care is a great health problem, and risky for health in the long term. Because the ignored dental health problems affect other systems in our bodies and make us resistless towards infections. Especially in this pandemic; while we need to have a strong immune system, we reduce body resistance by delaying treatments. For instance, there is a connection between gingiva health and diabetes and heart disease. To avoid this, we shouldn&#39;t ignore our dental health. Don&#39;t forget that health starts in mouth.&quot;<strong> </strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Stating that they see very serious differences compared to the previous in patients come for dental treatment with this new normalization, Dr. Ece Çalışkan </strong>said &quot;People&#39;s oral hygiene is worse and at this point, achievements in treatments are harder. And the reasons are the time spent at home, deterioration on people&#39;s dynamics and changes on eating and drinking habits. The most obvious reasons of these are over consumed desserts and fizzy drinks.&quot;</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>&quot;WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL ON HYGIENE&quot;</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Ece Çalışkan stated &quot;It is understandable that people are more anxious to go to dentist during the pandemic. The fear of second wave is in everybody&#39;s mind. Especially, people don&#39;t go to hospitals for health requirements unless it is indispensable and very urgent in this period. There is perception that hospital environments are not safe. Particularly, there are patients who escape from dental responses. Unfortunately, everywhere is insecure now, and we have to live by complying with the mask, distance, hygiene rule. However, this situation is not an obstacle for treatments in cautious and safe clinics. Even before the pandemic, we had pretty rigid hygiene practices as Istanbul Aydın University Dental Hospitals. Primarily, we will follow all the hygiene rules, thereafter, we will watch how the clinics and dental hospitals follow the rules. If the hygiene rules are not followed,&#160; we will immediately move away and we will inform the relevant authorities.&#160;</p>