فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

The outbreak of the COVID‑19 epidemic started in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, causing manypsychological and occupational effects for the medical staff, including dentists and all those who workto promote oral health. The present systematic review study investigates the psychological causesand effects of the COVID‑19 epidemic outbreak on dentists.Systematic search was performed on validdatabases such as Science Direct, Web of Science (WoS), Embase, Cochrane, and Scopus. TheEnglish articles published from December 2019 to November 2020 were selected according to theinclusion and exclusion criteria. The quality of the articles was assessed using an existing checklist.Then, their full texts were reviewed to extract the necessary data. Finally, the data were summarized ina table.This systematic review study showed the emergence of psychological symptoms such as fear,anxiety, and stress are the three most common disorders in dentists and all those who work to promoteoral health as the medical staff. This pandemic has had occupational and economic consequencesfor dentists.In general, the research results indicated that the outbreak of COVID‑19 had affectedthe dental profession in two areas: (1) Psychological consequences: Reviewing the articles showedthat the essential psychological effects in the dental profession are the fear of infection by patients,anxiety, and stress, respectively. (2) Occupational effects: The second significant consequence of theCOVID‑19 outbreak was that due to fear and anxiety of getting infected with the virus in the dentalenvironment, containing particles and aerosols from patients’ saliva and blood, dentists had to limitdoing their jobs in the emergency room and sometimes even closing their offices. This issue maycause economic problems for their professions. There is also a need to allocate additional costs forthe provision of sanitary equipment.