Iris Publishers - Online Journal of Dentistry & Oral Health| Perio Protect Method to Deliver Timed-Release Hydrogen Peroxide to the Salivary Ducts and the Oral Environment for Possible SARS-CoV-2 Protection
Authored by Duane C Keller, Introduction Some authors state we are lucky that we are experiencing the present SARS event rather than previous infections. Ceccarelli [1] explain that the present SARS-CoV-2 mortality rate is approximately 2.3%, but if this had been the SARS-CoV-MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) the mortality rate was 9.8%. The CDC report explains the mortality of SARS-CoV-19 is approximately 0.2% in young healthy individuals, but it increases with age and is highest in adults over 80 with other pre-existing conditions. The World Health Organization and Arabi Y [2] explain the mortality rate of the current pandemic for older individuals is about 10%, while the SARS-CoV-2(MERS) had a mortality rate for older individuals approximating 35%. The coronavirus is spread by two commons means: person to person contact through airborne respiratory droplets and from a hard surface followed by fomite transmission to the host. Anfinrud P [3] explain that spe...