Dhanasekaran Muralidharan, Shaga I Bevin, Ponniah Harish, Sankaranarayanan Padmasree, Nagappan Nagappan, Parameswaran T M
Associate professor, Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Karpaga Vinayaga Institute of Dental Sciences, Chengalpet, Tamil Nadu, India.
Assistant professor, Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Rajas Dental College, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India.
J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2021 Nov;13(Suppl 2):S1024-S1028. doi: 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_127_21. Epub 2021 Nov 10.
The objective of this study was to determine the problem encountered by an orthodontist due to suspended treatment during and after lockdown COVID 19 and to assess the pandemic impact on orthodontic practices.
This was a cross-sectional web-based questionnaire survey conducted among orthodontist in India. The pilot study was conducted to estimate the sample size and final sample size is 263 participants. The predesigned and validated, self-administered, structured 10 questions related to the impact of an orthodontist and their orthodontic practices during and after COVID 19 are used. The statistical analysis was done using Statistical Package for Social Sciences SPSS (V 22.0) the frequency distribution was computed.
The result showed that 81% orthodontist were reported that routine orthodontic treatment was disturbed due to this COVID 19 lockdown, about 79.1% reported hospital/clinic was closed due to lockdown with a duration of more than 1 month. Still, 64.6% orthodontist handling their orthodontic emergencies through telecommunication and 47.9% of orthodontist received a complaint about fixed appliance among all other appliances. Due to the current situation, 41.4% orthodontist suggested 3-6 months' period required to normalize the current situation and 66.9% agreed that there will be decline in orthodontic treatment need after COVID 19.
Owing to the high virulence activity, elective procedures have been postponed and can manage a patient through virtual teleconsultation. Reassurance of the patient is needed regarding prolonged treatment duration due to this COVID 19 pandemic.
本研究的目的是确定正畸医生在新冠疫情封锁期间及之后因治疗中断所遇到的问题，并评估疫情对正畸业务的影响。
这是一项在印度正畸医生中开展的基于网络的横断面问卷调查。进行了预试验以估计样本量，最终样本量为263名参与者。使用了预先设计并经验证的、自我管理的、结构化的10个问题，这些问题与新冠疫情期间及之后正畸医生及其正畸业务的影响有关。使用社会科学统计软件包SPSS（V 22.0）进行统计分析，计算频率分布。
结果显示，81%的正畸医生报告称，由于新冠疫情封锁，常规正畸治疗受到干扰，约79.1%的医生报告医院/诊所因封锁关闭超过1个月。尽管如此，64.6%的正畸医生通过电信处理正畸急诊，在所有其他矫治器中，47.9%的正畸医生收到关于固定矫治器的投诉。由于当前形势，41.4%的正畸医生建议需要3至6个月的时间使当前形势正常化，66.9%的医生同意新冠疫情之后正畸治疗需求将会下降。
由于高毒力活性，择期手术被推迟，可以通过虚拟远程会诊来管理患者。需要就新冠疫情导致治疗时间延长向患者提供保证。
