PERFIL ODONTOLÓGICO DOS PACIENTES INTERNADOS COM COVID-19 NO HOSPITAL DE REFERÊNCIA DO CENTRO DO ESTADO DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL

Abstract

Introduction: The confirmed cases of covid-19 in Brazil have almost reached the 38 million mark, being considered a health problem, leading many people to require hospitalization, as reported in the literature, manifesting some specific oral disorders. Objective: Evaluate dental records of hospitalized patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Methodology: This is a retrospective descriptive study of a quantitative nature, based on the descriptive analysis of data obtained from electronic medical records of patients with a positive diagnosis of covid-19 admitted to a teaching hospital in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul that required dental intervention, from March 2020 to May 2022. Results: From the 101 medical records included in the research, 59.41% of the patients were male, the average age was 56 years, with a predominant age range between 61 and 70 years old. Periodontal disease was present in 33.33% of the patients, oral lesions were reported in 70.77% of the records, where 53.85% had ulcerative lesions, there were also cases of herpes, oral candidiasis, whitish diffuse plaque, hematoma, orthodontic lesion, facial edema and glandular edema. Only 29.70% of patients did not require dental intervention, and when it was necessary, the most frequent was laser therapy in 67.50% of cases. Conclusion: Regarding oral lesions in patients with a potential association with covid-19, the most frequently described was ulcerative lesions, there's a strong correlation between oral manifestations in patients with COVID-19 and side effects of treatments applied to the disease.