2022 Volume 68 Issue 10 Pages 411-416
Background: Our hospital confirmed the first COVID-19 positive patient on March 3, 2020. On April 9,2020, SARS-CoV-2 was transmitted to patients with other diseases and multiple medical workers in a ward containing mild COVID-19 patients. All medical care for new patients and emergency patients was stopped, and all operations were stopped.
Method: Throughout dentistry and oral and maxillofacial surgery, we thoroughly implemented patient care, treatment, aerosol countermeasures associated with inpatient and outpatient surgery, and infection protection. Inpatient general anesthesia surgery was resumed on May 20, 2020, and the results of inpatient and outpatient surgery for 1 year and 5 months until October 15, 2021 were summarized.
Result: Outpatient surgery for dentistry and oral and maxillofacial surgery was performed in 876 (98%) of 893 cases. Inpatient surgery could be performed in 459 of 469 (97%). Although there was no difference in the achievement rate of surgery, all 4 patients who were positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the preoperative PCR examination were outpatients, and the ratio was equivalent to 0.4% of the patients scheduled for outpatient surgery.
