ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022
The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patient Selection, Surgical Procedures, and Postoperative Complications in a Specialized Dental Implant Clinic.
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- Safer and faster: evaluation of a dental implant checklist.Clinical oral investigations · 2026Article
- Analysis of trends in the context of implant therapy in a university surgical specialty clinic: a 20-year retrospective study.Clinical oral investigations · 2024Article
- Dental Care and Education Facing Highly Transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Prospective Biosafety Setting: Prospective, Single-Arm, Single-Center Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Personal Protection Equipment and Infection Control Procedures among Health Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, aerosol-generating procedures, including dental implant treatments, are considered high-risk. With dental implant treatment mostly an elective procedure, we aimed to assess whether the pandemic influenced patient selection, surgical procedures, and postoperative complications. We compared dental implant treatments during (March to December 2020) and before (December 2018 to February 2020) the COVID-19 pandemic based on patient and implant parameters, as well as postoperative complications. For analysis, we used the Chi-squared test with the Holm-Sidak correction for multiple comparisons. The number of implants placed during the COVID-19 pandemic (696 implants in 406 patients, 70 implants per month) was comparable to pre-pandemic levels (1204 implants in 616 patients, 80 implants per month). Regarding patient parameters, there were no significant differences in respiratory (
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