Research Article

Endodontic Emergencies Encountered in a Tertiary Dental Hospital during the Periods of Prelockdown, Lockdown, and Sequential Unlock Phases of the First Wave of COVID-19 in Ahmedabad City, India

Table 3

Treatmentwise distribution of patients during various time periods.

Time periodsPT n (%)PO n (%)PU n (%)TF n (%)ID n (%)PC n (%)Total n (%)Χ2 ( value)

Prelockdown34 (3.51)307 (31.62)463 (47.68)81 (8.34)22 (2.26)64 (6.59)971 (17.04)1040 (<0.001)
Lockdown231 (62.77)3 (0.82)2 (0.54)16 (4.35)20 (5.43)96 (26.09)368 (6.46)
Sequential unlock593 (69.11)1250 (80.13)1553 (76.96)403 (80.60)122 (74.39)438 (73.24)4359 (76.50)
Total n (%)858 (15.06)1560 (27.38)2018 (35.42)500 (8.78)164 (2.88)598 (10.49)5698 (100.0)

Sequential unlockPT n (%)PO n (%)PU n (%)TF n (%)ID n (%)PC n (%)Total n (%)Χ2 ( value)

Treatmentwise distribution of patients during time sequential unlock
Unlock 1285 (34)34 (5.18)37 (5.64)53 (8.08)25 (3.81)222 (33.84)656 (15.05)1368 (<0.001)
Unlock 250 (5.49)318 (34.91)395 (43.36)83 (9.11)33 (3.62)32 (3.51)911 (20.90)
Unlock 325 (3.19)276 (35.20)344 (43.88)72 (9.18)28 (3.27)39 (4.97)784 (17.99)
Unlock 4141 (13.99)308 (30.55)372 (36.90)94 (9.32)16 (1.59)77 (7.64)1008 (23.12)
Unlock 592 (9.20)314 (31.40)405 (40.50)101 (10.1)20 (2.00)68 (6.80)1000 (22.94)
Total n (%)593 (13.60)1250 (28.68)1553 (35.63)403 (9.25)122 (2.80)438 (10.05)4359 (100.0)