Applicability of Teledentistry/e-Dentistry in the New Infection Context of Monkeypox

Abstract

The clinical manifestations of developing MP are acute febrile illness, skin lesions, and lymphadenopathy (Adler et al., 2022; Sookaromdee et al., 2022). Rare complications of MP may include pneumonitis, encephalitis, sight-threatening keratitis, and secondary bacterial infections (Sookaromdee et al., 2022). The virus has an incubation period, from infection to first symptoms, ranging from 5 to 21 days. The patient develops a rash within the first three days after the onset of fever, which usually starts on the face and spreads to other regions of the body, such as the buccal, genital, cornea, and conjunctiva, in a typically centripetal fashion and which after a few days or weeks forms crusts followed by desquamation (Adler et al., 2022).