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metadata.artigo.dc.title: The impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the utilization of emergency dental services
metadata.artigo.dc.creator: Guo, Huaqiu
Zhou, Yin
Liu, Xiaoqiang
Tan, Jianguo
metadata.artigo.dc.subject: COVID-19
Dental care
Emergency dental services
metadata.artigo.dc.publisher: Elsevier
metadata.artigo.dc.date.issued: Mar-2020
metadata.artigo.dc.identifier.citation: GUO, H. et al. The impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the utilization of emergency dental services. Journal of Dental Sciences, [S.l.], Mar. 2020. No prelo.
metadata.artigo.dc.description.abstract: Background/Purpose To assess how the current COVID-19 epidemic influenced peoples' utilization of emergency dental services in Beijing, China. Methods The first-visit patients seeking emergency dental services before or at the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic were retrieved. Their demographic characteristics and the reasons for visiting were recorded and analyzed. Results There were 2,537 patients involved in this study. Thirty-eight percent fewer patients visited the dental urgency at the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic than before. The distribution of dental problems has changed significantly. The proportion of dental and oral infection raised from 51.0% of pre-COVID-19 to 71.9% during COVID-19, and dental trauma decreased from 14.2% to 10.5%. Meanwhile, the non-urgency cases reduced to three-tenths of pre-COVID-19. Conclusion Within the limitation of this study, the COVID-19 epidemic had a strong influence on the utilization of emergency dental services.
metadata.artigo.dc.identifier.uri: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1991790220300209
http://repositorio.ufla.br/jspui/handle/1/40238
metadata.artigo.dc.language: en_US
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