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ISSN 2063-5346
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ANXIETY IN DENTAL CARE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

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Christian Esteban Gómez Carrión, Ruth Asela Saravia Alviar, Jessica Haydee Saravia Alviar, Brenda Roxana Vergara Pinto, Elca Rocío del Águila Gastelu
» doi: 10.31838/ecb/2023.12.si5a.0655

Abstract

Dental care is necessary to adequately maintain oral hygiene and quality teeth, a task entrusted to dental personnel who were affected during the Covid-19 pandemic period in Peruvian territory. Among the measures that were necessary to adopt was the closure of premises and services, among which were the dental clinics, whose staff had to continue remote care through different applied variants, but which generally affected people's oral health. In the study, an analysis of the behavior is carried out in a sample of patients, with respect to dental anxiety and the main manifestations within it, as well as its influence and interrelation with dental indifference. During this period, an increase in both dental and Covid-19 anxiety was evidenced, which led to greater dental indifference in oral care and hygiene, causing the appearance of a greater number of oral conditions such as cavities, which was evidenced in greater quantity within the group of men. Anxiety disorders and dental indifference, although they always manifest themselves, were aggravated during the pandemic period.

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