Can virtual nature improve patient experiences and memories of dental treatment? A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
, 2014 Background Dental anxiety and anxiety-related avoidance of dental care create significant problems for patients and the dental profession. Distraction interventions are used in daily medical practice to help patients cope with unpleasant procedures ...
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Saudi Dental Journal, 2016 Purpose: To evaluate the value of using the visual information for reducing the level of dental fear and anxiety in patients undergoing teeth extraction under LA.
Giath Gazal +4 more
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Human brain evolution and the "Neuroevolutionary Time-depth Principle:" Implications for the Reclassification of fear-circuitry-related traits in DSM-V and for studying resilience to warzone-related posttraumatic stress disorder. [PDF]
, 2006 The DSM-III, DSM-IV, DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 have judiciously minimized discussion of etiologies to distance clinical psychiatry from Freudian psychoanalysis.
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan
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Translation and validation of Persian version of Index of Dental Anxiety and Fear (IDAF-4C+) [PDF]
Journal of Oral Health and Oral Epidemiology, 2019 BACKGROUND AND AIM: Being able to measure dental anxiety and fear is a necessary prerequisite for studying and understanding the nature and consequences of this common fear.
Mohadeseh Arabsolghar +3 more
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Improving Dental Experiences by Using Virtual Reality Distraction: A Simulation Study [PDF]
, 2014 Dental anxiety creates significant problems for both patients and the dental profession. Some distraction interventions are already used by healthcare professionals to help patients cope with unpleasant procedures. The present study is novel because it a)
Andrade, J +7 more
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Dental Fear among Medical and Dental Undergraduates
The Scientific World Journal, 2014 Objective. To assess the prevalence and level of dental fear among health related undergraduates and to identify factors causing such fear using Kleinknecht’s Dental Fear Survey (DFS) questionnaire. Methods.
H. Hakim, I. A. Razak
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The relationship between dental fear, anxiety and sociodemography in Jakarta, Indonesia
Dental Journal, 2020 Background: The anxiety associated with dental visits is one of the obstacles preventing dentists from improving oral health and is also a significant predictor of dental visit evasion, which is frequently observed in Indonesia.
Lisa Prihastari +7 more
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Cognitive behavioral therapy for children and adolescents with dental phobia [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Dental phobia is a disabling and clinically significant fear that interferes with the dental care necessary for a child’s or adolescent’s well-being.
Shahnavaz, Shervin
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Assessment of child's dental anxiety/fear and stress during dental treatment: a systematic review by CEDACORE [PDF]
Brazilian Oral Research, 2022 : There is a lack of evidence on the correlation between salivary biomarkers and subjective measures of dental fear and anxiety in children. This systematic review aimed to retrieve the scientific evidence comparing the results of dental anxiety measured
Heloisa de Sousa Gomes +6 more
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Variations in concerns reported on the Patient Concerns Inventory (PCI) in head and neck cancer patients from different health settings across the world [PDF]
, 2019 Background: The aim was to collate and contrast patient concerns from a range of different head and neck cancer follow-up clinics around the world. Also, we sought to explore the relationship, if any, between responses to the patient concerns inventory ...
Alvear, Alvaro +36 more
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