A new study published on the medRxiv preprint server has focused on the effect of various social restrictions or lack of social support on women who delivered and raised babies during the pandemic.
April 14, 2021 A new study from Japan published in the
Journal of Dental Research looked at the effects of pandemic-related psychological distress on oral health-related behaviors. Worsened socioeconomic conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a decrease in dental health, researchers found.
The group looked at data from the Japan COVID-19 and Society Internet Survey, which was conducted in August and September 2020. The aim was to understand how household income reduction, work reduction, and job loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic coincided with dental pain. The present study investigated the association between worsened socioeconomic conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic and dental pain in Japan, wrote the study authors, led by Dr. Yusuke Matsuyama, PhD, an assistant professor at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (