Background:

dental emergencies are conditions that cause great discomfort in patients, and in most cases they do not imply danger to life, but the immediate attention of the dentist is required.

Objective:

to characterize the morbidity due to dental emergencies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods:

a descriptive, cross-sectional observational study was carried out at the Reynaldo Aday López Dentistry Clinic of the municipality of Nuevitas, Camagüey province, in the period March to May 2021. The universe was made up of 1 257 patients who received emergency dental care. To collect the information, a form was prepared that constituted the primary registry, containing the study variables: age and sex, type of stomatological emergencies and treatments performed. The data were processed through the statistical processor SPSS version 15.0 for Windows. Descriptive statistics were used and frequency distributions were made to all the variables under study and the results were presented in absolute and relative values.

Results:

of the patients examined, the female sex and the age group of 35 to 59 years predominated, dental caries, acute alveolar abscess and pain in the temporomandibular joint stood out as the main dental emergencies, and patients were treated with zinc oxide and eugenol.

Conclusions:

during the emergency dental care in times of the health emergency, the female sex predominated, from the third to the fifth decade of life, dental caries, acute alveolar abscess and pain in the temporomandibular joint were highlighted as the main emergencies. They used zinc oxide and eugenol cure, drug therapy, and natural and traditional medicine as treatment modalities.

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