Revista de ciência e medicina odontológica

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Changing Trends in the Outpatient Dental Visits during the COVID - 19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Care Hospital

Marta Zalewska

The coronavirus pandemic has caused a worldwide public health crisis with associate new closedown of major institutions and non-emergency services. Disruptions across the country in dental hospitals light-emitting diode to challenges in addressing patient’s dental complaints. The current study aimed to analyse the distinction within the pattern of the patient dental visits throughout the pandemic amount as compared to it of the pre-pandemic amount in an exceedingly tertiary care hospital. This retrospective study was administrated by retrieving the patient information from the diagnostic register of the Department of Oral medication and Radiology for an amount of 1 year. That was retrieved from 24 Sept 2019 to 23 March 2020 was classified underneath the pre-pandemic amount and also the data from twenty fourth March 2020 to twenty fourth Sept 2020 was sorted underneath the pandemic amount. Patient information relating to the age, gender and clinical identification was recorded and classified underneath 3 main categories: “Emergency”, “urgent” and “elective”. 7550 patients throughout pre-pandemic amount and 4035 patients throughout the pandemic amount visited the dental hospital throughout the study amount