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“You don’t put food through your nose or in your ear,” said Lori McNeel, a patient advocate at Ozark Prosthodontics, a hub for kids and young adults with missing teeth.

She is now a surgical dental assistant at Jovan Prosthodontics in Austin, although because of Covid-19, she was recently furloughed.

Sandra Schoenbach Weinstein, a dentist at Westchester Prosthodontics in White Plains, N.Y., has had firsthand experience with the coronavirus that forced the United States’200,000 dentists to close their practices to all but emergency procedures in mid-March.

Dr Sherif Elsharkawy, an expert in prosthodontics at King’s College London who was not involved in the work, praised the research and said he found the approach very exciting.

He said he had been recruited to the UW to continue a practice that was started there in 1952, and had planned to recruit another specialist to the school before he retired so that the UW would continue to offer maxillofacial prosthodontics.