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The level of significance was set at p &lt; 0.05.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\nResults\u2003A total of 849 dentists fully completed the survey. Eighty-eight per cent of Italian dentists are worried about the health of their families, with no difference in high-risk (red zone) and low-risk (orange zone) regions. About 86% of professionals report some income loss and 94% fear a drop in patients after the quarantine phase, with the dentists working the red zone claiming a greater economic loss and fearing a reduced practice after the end of the lockdown.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n\nDiscussion\u2003A large majority of the Italian dentists appears to be aware of the need for changes in their dental practices by planning specific sterilization processes between appointments, testing patients for SARS-CoV-2 serology, asking patients not to be accompanied, and reducing the number of visits per day.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\nConclusion\u2003The survey expresses the serious concern of the dentists for the pandemic\u2019s effects on their profession.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/s-0040-1721910","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,24]],"date-time":"2021-02-24T00:18:49Z","timestamp":1614125929000},"page":"469-474","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":30,"title":["COVID-19: The Dentists\u2019 Perceived Impact on the Dental Practice"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Alessandra","family":"Amato","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, Scuola Medica Salernitana, Baronissi, Salerno, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Carolina","family":"Ciacci","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, Scuola Medica Salernitana, Baronissi, Salerno, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Stefano","family":"Martina","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, Scuola Medica Salernitana, Baronissi, Salerno, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mario","family":"Caggiano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, Scuola Medica Salernitana, Baronissi, Salerno, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Massimo","family":"Amato","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, Scuola Medica Salernitana, Baronissi, Salerno, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"194","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,23]]},"reference":[{"issue":"08","key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"727","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJMoa2001017","article-title":"China Novel Coronavirus Investigating and Research Team. 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