Dental Anxiety - Psychology
Research News and Information

Saturday, November 21, 2009

[A dissociative patient]

30 Jul 2009 A 45-year-old woman attended a centre for special dental care. Initially, it seemed that the patient suffered from an extreme form of dental anxiety. However, the fact that she displayed 'dissociations' suggested that she had a severe psychiatric ... Read more...

The effect of transmucosal 0.2 mg/kg midazolam premedication on dental anxiety, anaesthetic induction and psychological morbidity in children undergoing general anaesthesia for tooth extraction.

Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: The project aims were to evaluate the benefit of transmucosal midazolam 0.2 mg/kg pre-medication on anxiety, induction behaviour and psychological morbidity in children undergoing general anaesthesia (GA) extractions. METHOD: One hundred ... Read more...

Young children's Oral Health-Related Quality of Life and dental fear after treatment under general anaesthesia: a randomized controlled trial.

30 May 2009 During the past decade the research interest in Oral Health-Related Quality of Life (OHRQoL) has been prospering. This study was performed to test (using a randomized controlled trial design) the hypothesis that young children's OHRQoL improves ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Dental Anxiety - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [A dissociative patient] 30 Jul 2009
• The effect of transmucosal 0.2 mg/kg midazolam premedication on dental anxiety, anaesthetic induction and psychological morbidity in children undergoing general anaesthesia for tooth extraction. Jul 2009
• Teddy bears help anxious children. 25 Jun 2009
• Young children's Oral Health-Related Quality of Life and dental fear after treatment under general anaesthesia: a randomized controlled trial. 30 May 2009
• Dental fear and subjective oral impacts among adults in Finland. 30 May 2009
• Trajectories of dental anxiety in a birth cohort. 30 May 2009
• [Risks of dental fear reduction treatments] 30 May 2009
• Techniques for managing behaviour in pediatric dentistry: comparative study of live modelling and tell-show-do based on children's heart rates during treatment. 29 Apr 2009
• Factors affecting oral health-related quality of life among pregnant women. 29 Apr 2009
• Special needs of anxious and phobic dental patients. 30 Mar 2009
• A prospective study of dental anxiety in a cohort of children followed from 5 to 9 years of age. 28 Mar 2009
• Dental anxiety and trait anxiety: an investigation of their relationship. 25 Mar 2009
• Oral-health-related quality of life among children with and without dental fear. 27 Feb 2009
• Things will get better: the anxiety-buffering qualities of progressive hope. 18 Feb 2009
• Behavior-associated self-report items in patient charts as predictors of dental appointment avoidance. 30 Jan 2009
• Dental anxiety and alexithymia: gender differences. 30 Jan 2009
• Short communication: preferences of dentist's attire in a group of Istanbul school children related with dental anxiety. 30 Dec 2008
• Parental attitudes and perceptions affecting children's dental behaviour in Greek population. A clinical study. 30 Dec 2008
• Psychological treatment of fearful and phobic special needs patients. 30 Dec 2008
• Psychosocial predictors of dental anxiety. 30 Dec 2008

See a longer list of these articles.

Technical information about 'Dental Anxiety'

Definition: Abnormal fear or dread of visiting the dentist for preventive care or therapy and unwarranted anxiety over dental procedures.

Descriptor UI: D016854

Alternative terms: Dental Anxiety; Dental Fear; Dental Fears; Fears, Dental; Odontophobia; Odontophobias; Phobia, Dental; Dental Phobias; Phobias, Dental; Dental Phobia; Anxiety, Dental; Anxieties, Dental; Dental Anxieties; Fear, Dental;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F01.470.132.300; F01.470.361.300;

History Note: 92

Technical Notes: abnormal fear of dent care or dent proced; use Cat F3 qualif; DF: DENT ANXIETY