Dr. Will Rymer:

In my community, we have three dental practices in our town. I know two dentists were shielding as was recommended at the time so their patients would have been concentrated into one or two other practices. As a profession we were able to return to service very quickly. There were guidelines around types of treatments we were able to do at certain times but as a profession we were able to work and get back to reality pretty promptly.

A considerable number of HSE dentists were asked to work in the screening and vaccine administration services once the vaccine was available. The number of dentists working within the HSE would have been slightly different. Does anyone want to expand on that point?