Management strategies for oral mucosal diseases in the epidemic of Corona Virus Disease 2019

The Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) , which has been rapidly spreading since December 2019, has posed a great threat to the health and life of our people. In response to the epidemic, all over the country has launched a major public health emergency level Ⅰ response. In such a severe COVID-19 epidemic situation, it is new challenges to deal with the routine diagnosis and treatment of patients with oral mucosal diseases, especially the critical patients, to do a good job in patients′ home management and monitoring, and to manage the outpatients. Based on the cognition of COVID-19 and the disease control strategy, the authors have made some considerations and suggestions for the above problems, hoping to initiate the oral clinicians on how to carry out the diagnosis and treatment of oral mucosal diseases during the prevention and control of COVID-19. What we have done is to better carrying out the disease monitoring, home management and on-site medical guidance for patients. Key words: 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV); Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19); Oral mucosal disease; Treatment and management