Ban all non-emergency dental treatment during the COVID-19 crisis.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Dental professionals are the most exposed vocation, carrying out treatments which creates aerosols. The COVID-19 virus has been shown to survive 3 hours in the air after aerosol treatments and is highly infectious. The masks routinely used are not effective enough for this virus.

Why it was rejected

The UK Government or Parliament was already taking the action it asked for.

Since you started your petition the NHS has advised all dental practices to stop and defer all routine, non-urgent dental care: https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/03/issue-3-preparedness-letter-for-primary-dental-care-25-march-2020.pdf

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

Timeline

17 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
6 Apr 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 6 Apr 2020

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