Introduction:

During the COVID-19, the work of the fifth year stomatology students (intern) constituted a new theoretical-practical experience in the pre-degree teaching- educational process.

Objective:

To describe the main stomatological activities carried out by the fifth year stomatology students during the COVID-19.

Methods:

A descriptive and cross-sectional study of 11 fifth year Stomatology students was carried out, they actively worked in Mártires del Moncada Teaching Provincial Stomatological Clinic in Santiago de Cuba, from January to April, 2021. The variables used were: age, sex, nationality, stomatological activities and treatments performed. The data were processed and copied in statistical charts. The age average was determined and the relative and absolute frequencies were used as summary measures.

Results:

There was a prevalence of the 22-25 age group, female sex (54.5 %, respectively) and those of foreign nationality, with very similar values to those of Cubans. In this period 609 visits were made, in which odontalgias and acute dentoalveolar abscesses were the most frequent affections; while the treatments more performed in emergencies were the temporary obturations, cameral accesses, as well as the amalgam obturants in the prioritized groups.

Conclusion:

In times of COVID-9, the Stomatology interns, by means of the education at work, carried out with responsibility and abnegation all the professional skills within the program of the subject as strategy to reinforce the pre-degree teaching - educational process.

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