The Role of Dental Professionals in Pandemic Events and Disasters Response.

: In the past 20 years, major public health emergencies and natural disasters such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in 2003, the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, and the new coronavirus in 2019 (COVID-19), which caused massive casualties, infections and mass panic. These could also result in complex demands of medical resources and information disposal, and a shortage of human resources in emergency response. To address the potential shortage of human resources in emergency response, Chinese dental professionals have done some useful work in these incidents. From the work, deficiencies in emergency response training and in the expansion of rescue capabilities were identified and improvements were made.