Assessment of Preappointment Parental Counseling on Dental Fear and Anxiety in Children in Pedodontic Dental Operatory: A Randomized Controlled Trial. [PDF]
Int J Clin Pediatr DentBackground Dental fear and anxiety are important issues in the practice of pediatric dentistry because they interfere with both the provision and receipt of dental care in children and adolescents. Behavior guidance is a dynamic part of child management.
Ramesh R +4 more
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The Relationship between Dental Fear and Anxiety, General Anxiety/Fear, Sensory Over-Responsivity, and Oral Health Behaviors and Outcomes: A Conceptual Model. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Dental fear and anxiety (DFA) is common across the lifespan and represents a barrier to proper oral health behaviors and outcomes. The aim of this study is to present a conceptual model of the relationships between DFA, general anxiety/fear, sensory over-
Stein Duker LI +4 more
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Methods Helping Dentists to Detect Dental Fear [PDF]
International Dental Journal, 2023 Objectives: Dental fear is common and yet often remains unrecognised. COVID-19 has challenged health care since 2020. This study aimed to evaluate patients’ self-reported dental fear and detection of dental fear by the dentists.
Taina Kankaala +6 more
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Dental fear among adolescents with cleft [PDF]
International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, 2021 Background: Dental fear is a prevalent phenomenon among children and adolescents globally.Aim: To investigate dental fear among 18-year-olds with cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) at their final follow-up cleft clinic visit, and to evaluate the association ...
Anttonen, Vuokko +6 more
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Patient perceptions and experiences of dental fear of different dental specialties: a mixed-method study [PDF]
BMC Oral Health, 2023 Objective The primary objective of this study was to validate an Urdu translation of Kleinknecht’s Dental Fear Survey (DFS) for use in Pakistan and to explore which items contribute the most to the variance in dental fear scores based on patient ...
Muhammad Taqi +5 more
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Dental Fear and Associated Factors among Children and Adolescents: A School-Based Study in Lithuania. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 Dental fear is a challenging problem in dentistry and many contributing factors have been identified. Although this problem among children and adolescents has been studied in the literature for a long time, few such studies have been conducted in ...
Slabšinskienė E +4 more
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Psychological behavior management techniques to alleviate dental fear and anxiety in 4-14-year-old children in pediatric dentistry: A systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
Dent Res J (Isfahan), 2022 Child's uncooperative behavior can impede the efficient delivery of dental care. Therefore, in spite of exceeding availability of behavior management techniques there is a need to search for a psychological behavior management technique that effectively ...
Kohli N +5 more
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Psychometric evaluation of the Lebanese Arabic version of the Dental Fear Survey: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
BMC Oral Health, 2021 Background Dental fear is a prevalent problem that can lead to poor dental health. The Kleinknecht’s Dental Fear Survey (DFS) is one of the used scales to assess dental fear.
Hiba Kassem El Hajj +2 more
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Factors Associated with Dental Fear and Anxiety in Children Aged 7 to 9 Years
Dentistry Journal, 2019 The aim was to investigate changes in dental fear and anxiety (DFA) and verify factors associated with DFA in children. A longitudinal cohort study that included 160 children aged 7 years was carried out.
Andreas Dahlander +3 more
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Prevalence of Dental Fear and its Association with Painful Oral Conditions in Adolescents [PDF]
Pesquisa Brasileira em Odontopediatria e Clínica Integrada, 2023 Objective: To estimate the prevalence of dental fear and evaluate its association with dental caries and with Molar Incisor Hypomineralization (MIH) in schoolchildren aged 11-14 years.
Isla Camilla Carvalho Laureano +3 more
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