The COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in academic teaching and dental education, but the impact on dental professors' mental health and quality of life remains poorly understood. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the impacts of social distancing and online teaching related to COVID-19 on the quality of life and anxiety of Brazilian dental professors. This was a cross-sectional study conducted from August 2020 to October 2020. Three instruments were used in an online version: a questionnaire about personal data, academic information and online teaching activities, the Generalized Anxiety Disorders 7 (GAD7) scale, and the Abbreviated World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-bref) scale. All instruments were sent by e-mail, social media, and messaging apps to private and public universities and professors. Of the 318 responses, 187 (58.8%) were from female professors. Moreover, lack of good internet access and adequate place for online teaching, difficulties in producing teaching materials, and housework roles had a significant impact on the quality of life and anxiety scores (all p-values < 0.05). Also, Brazilian dental professors who declared that they would make greater efforts if the activities were face-to-face had significantly worse quality of life and anxiety scores, and female professors had significantly higher anxiety scores (all p-values < 0.05). These results provide evidence of a negative effect of social distancing and online teaching activities related to COVID-19 outbreak on the health-related quality of life and mental health of Brazilian dental professors.

Objective: To evaluate the occurrence of hematological and functional toxicities during chemotherapy with doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide in women with breast invasive ductal carcinoma. Methods: This was a descriptive, cross-sectional and quantitative study, involving the data collection in clinical records of 119 women undergoing chemotherapy for breast invasive ductal carcinoma in an oncology outpatient clinic, carried out between February 2014 and February 2015. Results: The investigated toxicities and their respectively occurrences in patients exposed to doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide were hemoglobinemia (26,5%), leukopenia (21,6%), neutropenia (10,8%), thrombocytopenia (none) and reduced hematocrit (28,4%), in addition to fatigue (93,1%), fever (20,6%), gain (35,3%) and weight loss (22,5%). In these variables, there were no significant differences between the exposed and not exposed patients. The association with taxanes showed a significant reduction in hematocrit values (p=0.019) and the toxicities distributed by age group were not significant within the exposed group. Conclusions: Exposure to doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide was not associated with an increase in the occurrence of hematotoxicities and functional impacts in women with breast ductal invasive carcinoma, except when associated with taxane agents.

Dental caries is an important Public Health issue. However, the treatment of this disease in tertiary dental care requires further investigation. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate caries-related hospital morbidity in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) from 2008 to 2022. An ecological study was conducted with secondary data on caries-related Hospital Admission Authorizations (AIH) and in-hospital dental procedures (IDP). Data were collected nationwide and statistical analysis was performed with a significance level (p) of 5%. In the last 15 years, 3,474 caries-related AIH and 63,657 IDP were approved within SUS. There was a significant upward trend in the number of caries-related AIH (p = 0.018) and a stationary trend in the number of caries-related IDP (p = 0.841). Moreover, from 2008 to 2022, R$ 1,160,843.09 was allocated for caries-related AIH. Hospital mortality was 0.29% (10 deaths), and 75.1% were elective inpatient admissions. Among SUS users, adults constituted the majority (49%), with a higher frequency of males (59.8%) and whites (46.2%). The most frequent type of caries-related IDP was restoration of permanent teeth (55.3%). Nonetheless, during the COVID-19 pandemic years, significant reductions in caries-related AIH and IDP within the SUS were observed (all p <0.05). Thus, within the SUS, caries-related tertiary dental care has shown a specific pattern over the last 15 years, including an increase in hospitalizations and a high number of in-hospital dental procedures, especially before the COVID-19 pandemic onset.