Change of Outpatient Oral Surgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience of an Italian Center

Table 1

Personal protective equipment: various scenarios after admission to the clinic.

	Nonclinical areas	Clinical area—nonaerosol generating procedures	Clinical area—aerosol generating procedures
Cap	✓	✓	✓
Face shield			✓
Filtered mask^§		✓	✓
Gloves	✓	✓	✓
Protective glasses		✓	✓
Protective waterproof clothing			✓
Shoe cover		✓	✓
Surgical mask	✓

In order to reuse filtered masks, they were covered with a surgical mask. The filtered masks were disposed of at the end of the work shift. ^§N-95 masks, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, USA, or FFP2/FFP3-standard masks, European Union.