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Dental Fear in Children – a proposed model [PDF]

open access: possibleBritish Dental Journal, 1999
Over the past eleven years, we have worked together to treat children who are dentally phobic. This has enabled us to develop an understanding of how children come to be dentally fearful. We have constructed a model of child dental fear which helps us in our work.
N C Kirby-Turner, H R Chapman
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Dental fear and satisfaction with dental services in Switzerland

Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 2012
AbstractObjectives: Dental satisfaction is associated with continuity of dental care, compliance with dentist advice, and positive health outcomes. It is expected that people with higher dental fear might have less dental satisfaction because of more negative dental experiences.
Armfield, J.   +3 more
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Psychometric measures of dental fear

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1984
Abstract Four psychometric scales: Corah Dental Anxiety Scale (CDAS), a modified version of the Geer Fear Scale (GFS), the Health Locus of Control Scale (HLCS), and a Mood Adjective Check List (MACL), were studied with regard to their implications for dental fear.
Sven G. Carlsson, Ulf Berggren
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A psychophysiological therapy for dental fear

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1984
Abstract A partly automated method for treating dental fear and avoidance is outlined. The method combines a desensitization procedure with EMG biofeedback and cognitive reattribution. After therapy, 21 out of 24 patients suffering from severe dental fear were able to complete dental rehabilitation.
Sven G. Carlsson, Ulf Berggren
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Origins of childhood dental fear

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1995
This study explored Rachman's theory of fear acquisition applied to fear of the dentist in a large sample of low income American primary school children. Children and their mother/guardians were interviewed or completed questionnaires in the home about fear acquisition and related concerns.
Lloyd Mancl   +3 more
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Fears of the Dental Situation

Journal of Dental Research, 1972
Ratings of fear in the dental situation indicate that high fear and low fear patients rank the fears associated with the dental situation in about the same way (p = 0.98). Also, the attitude of the dentist is important to the patient, and may, partially, determine his attitude toward dentistry.
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The assessment of dental fear

Behavior Therapy, 1978
Multiple channel fear assessment of 128 patients was obtained in the offices of five general practitioners to evaluate a fear assessment battery consisting of self-reports, physiological measures, and overt behavior indices. Results indicated that, in general, self-reports of dental fear were most strongly related to other subjective anxiety and pain ...
Ronald A. Kleinknecht   +1 more
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Components of dental fear in adults?

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1989
The functional relatedness between dental fear and multiple other fears was studied in a normative sample of 285 undergraduates. Rachman and Lopatka's work on the inter-dependence of multiple fears within individuals, as well as Lang's bioinformational theory of emotion, provided a theoretical background for this investigation.
M.Lee Berryman, Daniel W. McNeil
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Longitudinal interrelationships between dental fear and dental attendance among adult Finns in 2000-2011.

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 2019
OBJECTIVES The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate causal pathways among as well as interrelationships between changes in dental fear and dental attendance in a nationally representative sample of adult Finns aged 19 years or older in 2000,
Arja Liinavuori   +3 more
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Dental fear/anxiety among children and adolescents. A systematic review.

European Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, 2017
AIM The aim of this paper was to review the published scientific literature to quantify the prevalence and mean score of dental fear/anxiety (DFA) in children/adolescents and its variation according to several variables.
S. Cianetti   +9 more
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