COVID-19 and orthodontist behavior: A cross-sectional study

Introduction: To indicate how COVID-19 effects on behavior and their reactions to COVID-19 for orthodontist’s lives in two neighbor countries (Turkey and Iraq).

Material and method: An online Google survey form in order to make a special questioner designed by specialist phycologist consist from nineteen questions were sent to Turkish Orthodontic Society and Iraq Orthodontic Society in order to investigate orthodontist behavior and their reactions to COVID-19 pandemic. Descriptive statistics were used to shown and chi-square for association. Level of significance was set at p<0.05.

Results: Two hundred seventeen Iraqi and Turkish orthodontists (104 Turkish orthodontists; 113 Iraqi orthodontists) answered to the form. Most of them had stop working during pandemic period of COVID-19. Most of the participated orthodontist reports that just works on emergency cases during the COVID-19 pandemic, this have a deleterious effect on orthodontist economic status that was very significant (p:0.002) in this study, also their future and psychological status, this could be attributed their thinking in virus dangerous on themselves and their family life’s and highly significant (p:0.001) used their time seeing online presentation and read a scientific researches related to their fields.

Conclusion: COVID-19 effect on orthodontist life, economic and psychological status, orthodontist should take their cover protection them self from different virus’s diseases and other and COVID-19 lockdown provide a much time for orthodontist reading some books and scientific papers also seen allot of online lectures and presentations and spend a time with their family.