Table 3.
The comparison of treatment management before and after COVID-19 epidemic according to diagnostic categories.
| Diagnosis Categories | Variables | Covid-19 (n, %) |
χ2 | p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before | After | ||||
| Traumatica | Treatment | ||||
| Dental procedure without droplets and aerosols | 77 (52.4) | 73 (54.9) | 0.519 | 0.771 | |
| Dental procedure with droplets and aerosols | 28 (19.0) | 21 (15.8) | |||
| Medication or oral hygiene instruction | 42 (28.6) | 39 (29.3) | |||
| Non-traumaticb | Treatment | ||||
| Dental procedure without droplets and aerosols | 20 (21.5) | 11 (16.7) | 3.028 | 0.220 | |
| Dental procedure with droplets and aerosols | 38 (40.9) | 21 (31.8) | |||
| Medication or oral hygiene instruction | 35 (37.6) | 34 (51.5) | |||
| Othersc | Treatment | ||||
| Dental procedure without droplets and aerosols | 16 (39.0) | 12 (34.3) | 0.101d | 0.750 | |
| Dental procedure with droplets and aerosols | 1 (2.4) | 2 (5.7) | |||
| Medication or oral hygiene instruction | 24 (58.5) | 21 (60.0) | |||
a
Traumatic included soft tissue lacerations and tooth or alveolar bone fracture.
b
Non-traumatic included pulp-related problems, periodontal-related problems, and odontogenic infection.
c
Others include post-operative complication, temporomandibular disorder disease, and other diagnoses.
d
The number of patients who accept dental procedure with droplets and aerosols was only three; therefore, this subgroup was excluded from the Chi-square test.