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Mind over matter

BDJ In Practice volume 33, pages 22–23 (2020)Cite this article

Dentists' Provident's Sarah Bradbury on the mental health toll caused by COVID-19

The unexpected health pandemic in spring this year was mind blowing and shocking for us all, coming out of a mild winter with environmental protests and in the aftermath of Brexit conversations, coronavirus was beyond anything we could have reasonably predicted. An international pandemic of this scale and this nature can truly be classed as an 'unprecedented event' and such a shock can have an impact on our mental health.1

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    Sarah Bradbury

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