MDJ (Makassar Dental Journal)
Vol. 11 No. 2 (2022): Volume 11 Issue 2 Agustus 2022

Patient perception of orthodontic services during the Covid-19 pandemic: Persepsi pasien terhadap pelayanan ortodontis di masa pandemi Covid-19

I Dewa Gde Budijana (Department of Orthodontic, Faculty of Dentistry, Mahasaraswati Denpasar University)
Dwis Syahrul (Department of Orthodontic, Faculty of Dentistry, Mahasaraswati Denpasar University)
Putu Leony Kartika Putri (Undergraduted Dental Student Faculty of Dentistry, Mahasaraswati Denpasar University)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Aug 2022

Abstract

In the field of dental and oral health services, orthodontists are one of the professions that have a high enough risk of being ex-posed to Covid-19. It is possible for each patient to transmit the SARS Cov-2 virus to orthodontists, other health workers and another patient. This study was aimed to determine patient perception to orthodontic clinic services and routine orthodontist vi-sits in orthodontic treatment during pandemic Covid-19. Methods: This study used adescriptive correlational, non-experimental study with a cross-sectional design. The sample of the study consisted of 134 orthodontic appliance users who had routine or-thodontic visits to orthodontic clinic around Denpasar City. Result. Based on the research, it is known that 132 orthodontic ap-pliance users (98,51% of the respondents) had a good perception of orthodontic clinic services during the Covid-19 pandemic and 117 orthodontic appliance users (87,31% of the respondents) had a fairly good perception of routine orthodontic treatment visits during the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, the results of the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient (Spearman’s ρ) test show a significance value of 0.065>0.05. It can be concluded that the orthodontic clinic services have had no impact on the routine orthodontic visits of orthodontic appliance users during pandemic Covid-19

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Journal Info

Abbrev

MDJ

Publisher

Subject

Dentistry

Description

The journal receives a manuscript from the following area below Dentistry science and development with interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach: Dental Public Health and Epidemiology Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Dental Conservation and Endodontics Preventive Dentistry Biomedical Dentistry ...