Juliana Silveira de Almeida
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Allyssia Vitória Souza da Silva
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Ana Karina Fonseca de Carvalho Calderan Correa
The purpose of this work is to evaluate, through a recent bibliographic review, the main clinical characteristics of the disease caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19), its routes of transmission and to address how the Surgeon - Dentist (CD) can identify the suspected patients and , mainly, to present preventive measures of biosafety in order to control and to minimize the contagion of this infection in the dental service. The new normal will need adaptations of dental techniques and new general recommendations, which will be part of everyday life from now on. A bibliographic search was performed in the PUBMED database with the keywords: Coronovirus, Biosafety and Dentistry, Covid-19, between January and April 2020. Articles with full versions, in English, Portuguese, and Spanishi were used as inclusion criteria.