Exposure to maternal symptoms of depression/anxiety has long-term negative consequences for child development, regardless of the contextual risk. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship of the symptomatology of persistent maternal depression and anxiety with child dental fear. This study was nested in a cohort of adolescent mothers in southern Brazil. Symptomatology of m...

UNLABELLED The self-report measure of fear of children dental patients is an important point in screening and determining strategies of behaviour's management. AIM The aim of this investigation was to assess dental fear in students from the town of Plovdiv, aged 12, 13 and 14, by using Dental Fear Survey Schedule for Children (DFSS-DS) and to determine the causes. MATERIAL AND METHODS The s...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to describe both the prevalence of dental fear in Australia and to explore the relationship between dental fear and a number of demographic, socio-economic, oral health, insurance and service usage variables. METHODS A telephone interview survey of a random sample of 7312 Australian residents, aged five years and over, from all states and territories. RESULTS The...

AIM Dental fear and anxiety in early childhood are widely prevalent and contribute to dental problems and behaviour in adulthood. Novel ways to reduce dental fear and anxiety in children are needed. Our aim was to conduct an efficacy trial of a novel Camouflage Syringe to reduce dental fear and anxiety in children. MATERIALS AND METHODS STUDY DESIGN randomised controlled trial of efficacy ...

Experimental fear conditioning in humans is widely used as a model to investigate the neural basis of fear learning and to unravel the pathogenesis of anxiety disorders. It has been observed that fear conditioning depends on stimulus salience and subject vulnerability to fear. It is further known that the prevalence of dental-related fear and phobia is exceedingly high in the population. Dental...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to determine whether the oral-health-related quality of life (ORHQoL) and its dimensions differed among children with and without dental fear when different characteristics of fear were measured. MATERIAL AND METHODS The participants were 11- to 14-year-old Finnish child volunteers from the Oulu University Hospital cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) treatment register (n...

INTRODUCTION Children with high dental fear and perception usually encounter high prevalence of dental caries. Data showed that individuals with dental fear will probably defer dental appointments which may result in the formation of a setup of an endless loop of dental fear. Present study was aimed to assess different psycho-social parameters among pediatric patients visiting dental clinics. ...

Cognitive elements play a key role in dental anxiety. Nevertheless, relatively little is known about how dental treatments and frequency of visits to the dentist are related to dental fear and its cognitive antecedents. This study aimed to explore the relationships between dental visits, past treatment experiences, expectations on the aversiveness/probability of negative dental events, and dent...

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...