At the start of the pandemic there was a severe shortage of personal protective equipment and dentists , like other healthcare workers,  had to continue looking after patients despite the  potential danger to themselves and their teams. Should our first response to these ethical challenges be to look after ourselves first  before we think about the patients? This is not the approach we would normally adopt when treating our patients outside of a pandemic

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