key: cord-0011677-qfbjars7 authors: nan title: Prescribing antibiotics for urgent dental care during the pandemic date: 2020-05-22 journal: Br Dent J DOI: 10.1038/s41415-020-1652-1 sha: 125421efe5ffb705907b82d02a3ff569e55c6b8e doc_id: 11677 cord_uid: qfbjars7 nan We are in unprecedented times dealing with a global pandemic that is affecting the health and economics of our country and impacting personally on all of us. We recognise the difficulties for the dental profession in managing patients when there is sustained transmission of Urgent dental care systems in the context of coronavirus Prescribing antibiotics for urgent dental care during the pandemic