This work describes and evaluates vaccination against COVID-19 among members of the Czech Dental Chamber during the pre-booster vaccination phase. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted between 23 June and 4 September 2021, among 2716 participants, representing 24.3% of all chamber members. A total of 89.5% of respondents stated that they were registered for vaccination against COVID-19, their vaccination had started or been completed, or had a medically relevant reason to avoid vaccination. A total of 79.6% of respondents stated that they were fully vaccinated, most of them with the Comirnaty (Pfizer−BioNTech) vaccine (88.3%). The vaccination rate among males was significantly higher than among females (p = 0.001, OR 1.48). The main reasons for vaccination were professional (91.5%). The share of fully vaccinated participants was significantly higher (p < 0.0001, OR = 8.17) compared to the Czech general population (30.8%). A COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infection rate was 0.42%. The study shows that both the willingness to vaccinate and the proportion of fully vaccinated individuals among Czech dentists are high, and only about 10% of them refused vaccination based on reasons classified as not medically relevant.

Department of Dentistry Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove Charles University and University Hospital Hradec Kralove 500 05 Hradec Kralove Czech Republic

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University and University Hospital Brno 625 00 Brno Czech Republic

Department of Stomatology 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University and General Teaching Hospital Katerinska 32 121 08 Prague Czech Republic

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