**5. Conclusions**

The present study concludes that although the knowledge is sufficient amongst the Saudi Arabian population, there is a need to improve participants' perception, preventive practice, and oral health care perceptions to improve their active involvement in controlling the COVID-19 transmission. The Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia website is the most reliable source of information COVID-19. The present study suggests that the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia successfully created awareness, and mixed responses were observed on preventive practices among the Saudi Arabian population. Comprehensive details of COVID-19 perceptions, preventive practices, and oral health care practices among the Saudi Arabian population based on gender, nationality, age groups, family members, and monthly incomes were discussed in this study.

**Author Contributions:** A.A. and B.A.; developed the concept, S.A.A. and S.K.M.; written the first draft. All the authors involved in reviewing and editing the manuscript. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research received no external funding.

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** The Ethical Committee Clearance was obtained from Majmaah University, Al-Majmaah, Saudi Arabia, under IRB No: MUREC-June-10/Com-2020/32-3.

**Informed Consent Statement:** Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.

**Data Availability Statement:** The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding authors upon reasonable request.

**Acknowledgments:** The authors would like to thank the Deanship of Scientific Research at Majmaah University for supporting this work under Project Number No. R-2021-172.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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