Dental services in Surin hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affects the operations in dentistry, mainly tooth drilling and suction, which possibly generate airborne transmission. This study aims to compare the dental services provided by the department of dentistry, Surin hospital during the pandemic of COVID-19 in fiscal years (FY) 2020 and 2021 with FY 2019, before the pandemic, by the percentage change of dental patients and services. The study revealed the overall dental patient decreased by 19.0% in FY 2020 and 38.3% in FY 2021. Dental emergency services decreased by 14.8% in FY 2020 and 23.3% in FY 2021, while basic services which were tooth filling, scaling, and tooth extraction decreased by 23.8, 28.6, and 13.5% in FY 2020, respectively, and 44.4, 50.5, and 40.0% in FY 2021, respectively. On specialized services which were endodontics, operative dentistry, periodontology, prosthodontics, and oral-maxillofacial surgery services in FY 2020 decreased 48.5, 25.6, 29.0, 39.2 and 9.8%, respectively, as well as decreased 63.7, 45.8, 48.8, 56.0, and 30.7% in FY 2021 compared to FY 2019. Therefore, further studies should be conducted on the factors affecting the patient's decision to receive dental services during the pandemic of COVID-19.
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