BACKGROUND Fear and anxiety often inhibit patients from seeking dental care. Audiovisual, or A/V, distraction techniques have been shown to reduce patient anxiety and pain during dental procedures. The authors investigated the effects of a virtual image A/V eyeglass system on patients' anxiety and pain. METHODS Twenty-seven routine dental prophylaxis patients participated and completed the De...

background & objective: exam anxiety is a significant problem among university students and can be accompanied by a decline in performance and severe psychological problems. this study was designed to investigate exam anxiety levels among dental students of kerman university of medical sciences, iran, in 2013. methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on dental students of k...

AIM To establish the effect of information received about dental care on the anxiety level of the child prior to receiving any form of dental treatment and on their behaviour during dental treatment. METHODS Eighty-four healthy child patients at their first dental visit, between the ages of 8 and 13 years attending a paediatric dental clinic in Nigeria participated in the study. Information o...

The management of pain and anxiety form the backbone of contemporary dental practice. The past decades have seen the introduction of a significant number of promising new techniques, drugs and equipment designed to aid the dental professional in the quest for a more pain-free and fear-free dental practice. This paper presents a brief look at these drugs and techniques.

In this age of anxiety, pain control and sedation have become important aspects of dental care. It is now becoming more common for general practitioners to provide in-office sedation for routine dental procedures. A segment of the population that would otherwise not seek care because of fear or anxiety is now receiving treatment. The use of sedation for dental care has become a topic of intense...

introduction : root canal treatment (rct) success criteria inform us of the path to bony healing and of prognostic factors, but tell little about how the patient perceives, feels, or values rct. patients choose, undergo, and pay for rct, they live with the result, and inform their community. the purpose of this narrative review was to appraise patient-centered outcomes of initial non-surgical r...

Background: The autonomy of dental anxiety may be compared with other psychopathologies, however, it is classified as indicative of a specific phobia. It is interesting to know how dental anxiety operates within a wider context. Material and Method: The group was made by 514 subjects, recruited from several dental surgeries. The entire process, consisted in selfcompilation of the Dental Anxiety...