Home⇛College of Dentistry Research Journal⇛vol. 8 no. 1 (2023)

Dental Emergency Practices during COVID 19

Faith Carisse Anne L. Balmes | Job Dickerson B. Aguilera | Jhesurien O. Dagooc | James Vernon M. Fallar | Mary Louise C. Ilagan | Andrea Camille O. Macalintal

Discipline: Dentistry

 

Abstract:

With the recent rise of COVID-19 cases in the past two years, it is important to measure how Dental Practitioners execute dental emergency practices during this time. Thus, this study focuses on how professionals belonging to Batangas, and Lipa City handled cases during an ongoing pandemic. The researcher made use of Descriptive- quantitative research method to 80 respondents using the Purposive sampling technique.



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