Dental anxiety and subsequent avoidance of dental care and deterioration of oral health pose a significant problem for the dental profession. In an attempt to elucidate preferences of anxious dental patients, we gathered survey data from 121 persons at a small, private liberal arts college in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Half of the respondents experienced dental anxiety, and m...

AIM Dental interventions are potentially overwhelming for children with hemophilia; the study was designed to assess the levels of dental anxiety related to the first dental intervention for these children. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty-six boys with severe haemophilia A and B and 56 healthy peers between the ages of 7-12 in need of primary dental extraction were chosen for this study. Facial A...

Objective: To investigate the association between emotional and behavioural problems dental fear/anxiety (DFA) in children aged four to 12 years treated at a clinic southern Brazil. Material Methods: In this cross-sectional study where mother-child dyads were interviewed, investigated using Strengths Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) (considering five subscales). Children's DFA was evaluated thr...

Clinical management of patients with dental fear, anxiety, and phobia could be a major challenge to daily practice professionals. The aim the current review was expand modern consideration respect these issues, therefore discuss basic approaches psychological techniques for oral health behaviors that should employed in dentistry. This paper presents detailed description characteristics dentist-...

AIM The aim of the present study was to assess the structure of childhood dental fear, using the Dutch parent's version of the Dental Subscale of the Children's Fear Survey Schedule (CFSS-DS) and to report on its validity. MATERIALS AND METHODS Factor analysis (principal components, varimax rotation) was performed using the scores of a group of high fearful children (n=322). Results were comp...

The relationship between dental anxiety and blood/body injury (BI) fears was examined in a sample of 1420 adults. Based on their responses to two mail questionnaires, they were classified into one of four groups: Group 1--neither dentally anxious nor BI fearful; Group 2--BI fearful only; Group 3--dentally anxious only; Group 4--both dentally anxious and BI fearful. Overall, only 16% of dentally...