COVID 19 Pandemic - Present And Future recommendations/guidelines to manage the patients in oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is caused by one of the new strain of Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) which was initially discovered in December 2019 in Wuhan city of China. The common symptoms of this disease are fever, cough and shortness of breath. As a professional we are going through a situation that we have not seen before. Oral & Maxillofacial surgeon are facing dilemmas over patients and treatment selection, safety of medical personal and patients and the most appropriate use of available resource in our hospitals. This advice guideline discusses the medical protection measures required in the outpatient clinic as well as in Operation Theater in oral and maxillofacial surgery department. The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of virology, diagnostic test, transmission route, incubation period, clinical manifestation and treatment of corona virus. In addition, the main goal of this article is that we have to make certain recommendation/guideline on patient selection, procedure selection and discussing the measures to be taken to prevent the spread of virus at our workplace during this era of pandemi