Online consultation and emergency management in paediatric dentistry during the COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan: A retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic posed a great challenge to paediatric dentistry, which confronted with the restriction of service and resource shortage.

Aim

To retrospectively analyse the information of children's dental online health consultation during the COVID-19 pandemic in China, and to provide methods to distinguish between dental emergencies and non-emergencies as well as their management.

Design

We collected all the online consultation information in Dept. of Paediatric dentistry, School & Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, from 2 February to 31 March 2020, and extracted the information of age, gender, reason for consultation, description of symptom, and preliminary diagnosis of the children.

Results

A total of 474 online consultations of paed

SUBMITTER: Yang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7537273 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature