The effect of the vaccine administered to healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic process on dental anxiety

The coronavirus epidemic has affected the whole world and our country in recent years. In this epidemic, the healthcare workers were the people who suffered the most physical and psychological damage. Healthcare professionals had to cope with difficult working conditions, while taking the risk of contamination, putting themselves and their family at risk. Health workers were the first population vaccinated in our country. Our study was planned to evaluate the state of dental anxiety, which increased in the community with the fear of coronavirus transmission, after vaccination and to evaluate the general dental anxiety in healthcare workers. In our study, our aim is to determine the factors affecting the increasing dental anxiety in healthcare workers due to COVID-19 disease and dental anxiety as a result of these factors.