The COVID-19 pandemic impacted consumer access to oral health care. The temporary closure of dental offices and fear related to the pandemic affected dental visits and led to experimentation in using teledentistry to serve oral health care needs.

This article examines consumers’ use of teledentistry from June 2019 through June 2020, assessing respondents’ teledentistry use in association with their levels of anxiety about the pandemic, their demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, and geography.