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- Rubber dam in dental care and other related subjects of its use in dentistry: a scoping reviewPublication . Dazin, Elisa; Monteiro, Patrícia Manarte; Monteiro, BeatrizIntroduction: The use of a rubber dam for absolute isolation of the teeth is widely recommended to control the operating field and ensure oral treatment success. Objective: This work carried out a scoping review on rubber dam medical device use for dental care and dentistry and, of the most up-to-date evidence on its related-issues such as, prevalence, safety, environment, and marketing bibliometric data. It also intended to map the number and methodologic categories of the collected studies. Material and Methods: Search was conducted in PubMed, B-On and Science Direct, and, in Dentistry Grey Literature databases and others between April and May 2023. Inclusions and exclusions criteria were applied according to the research question based on the PCCO strategy. For that purpose, to the #rubber dam/dental dam# and #dental care/dentistry# search terms were added to the issues on “prevalence”, “safety”, “environment” and “marketing”. Results: Were presented numerical aspects of the dental care fields and other related issues to dentistry, as well as the type of studies and characteristic of any relevant study. Rubber dam engaged to prevalence data, allowed to scope map 7 surveys; Rubber dam engaged to safety data allowed to scope map 13 references: 5 clinical trials, 4 case reports, 2 reviews, 1survey and 1 retrospective review; Rubber dam engaged to environment data, allowed to scope map 7 references: 4 editorials, 1 clinical in situ, 1 case report, 1 review. Rubber dam engaged to marketing data, allowed to scope map 11 references: 5 reviews, 2 case reports, 2 grey sources, 1 experimental trial and 1 editorial. Conclusion: The rubber dam, a highly recommended device for everyday dental procedures, is still side-lined today, with low usage rates, despite having been used successfully during the pandemic Sars-Cov-2.