Journal of Multidisciplinary Dental Research
DOI: 10.38138/JMDR/v7i1.7
Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-7
Review Article
Lakshman Samaranayake1,*, Kausar Sadia Fakhruddin2
1Professor Emeritus and Immediate-past Dean, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2Lecturer, Department of Preventive and Restorative Dentistry College of Dental Medicine, University of Sharjah, UAE
* Corresponding author email: [email protected]
Received Date:20 July 2021, Accepted Date:20 July 2021, Published Date:20 August 2021
Transplant pioneer, Peter Medawar, once said that a virus is ‘simply a piece of bad news wrapped in protein’. One could opine then, that the new COVID-19 vaccines are ‘Bits of corona viral proteins in gift wrapping.’ For, most of the COVID-19 vaccines are based on the principle that pre-exposure of the vaccinee’s host immune system to the spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2, the first part of the viral anatomy that touches the vulnerable host cells, will elicit an effective antibody response to curb potential future infections. COVID-19 vaccines come in many sizes and shapes, and clearly, a return to normal, post-COVID dental practice entails protecting all members of the dental team with an appropriate vaccine, as and when available. We provide a thumbnail sketch of the COVID-19 vaccines currently in the offing, which we hope will be helpful for decision-making for choice of vaccine. The commentary ends with a discussion of the impact of COVID-19 vaccines on dentistry, in general.
© 2021 Published by International Dental Educationists’ Association (IDEA). This is an open-access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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