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Perioperative Propranolol Against Dental Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundPromising results from a trauma reactivation study on post-traumatic stress disorder suggest that propranolol is capable of attenuating symptoms of traumatically induced mental disorders by blocking memory reconsolidation.MethodsA randomized ...
Serge A. Steenen, Serge A. Steenen, Naichuan Su, Roos van Westrhenen, Roos van Westrhenen, Roos van Westrhenen, Arjen J. van Wijk, Daniël S. L. Tjia, Jan de Lange, Ad de Jongh, Ad de Jongh, Ad de Jongh   +11 more
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Association between cognitive vulnerability, dental fear, and oral health status among schoolchildren in Bangalore city – A cross-sectional study

Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, 2020
Context: Dental anxiety and fear is not only a psychological problem but also a dental health problem. It is important to understand how the cognitive elements influence child's dental anxiety/fear and interact with their oral health.
Santhiya Bairappan, Manjunath P Puranik, Namita Shanbhag   +2 more
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Why are people afraid of the dentist?:Observations and explanations [PDF]

, 2014
Objective: The aim of this review was to explore the peer-reviewed literature to answer the question: 'Why are people afraid of the dentist?' Method: Relevant literature was identified by searching the following on-line databases: PubMed, PsycInfo, the ...
Beaton, Laura, Beaton, L.; id_orcid, Freeman, R.; id_orcid, Humphris, G., Humphris, Gerald Michael, Freeman, Ruth   +5 more
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Study protocol of an investigation of attention and prediction error as mechanisms of action for latent inhibition of dental fear in humans

BMC Psychology, 2023
Background Evidence suggests that dental anxiety and phobia are frequently the result of direct associative fear conditioning but that pre-exposure to dental stimuli prior to conditioning results in latent inhibition of fear learning.
Laura D. Seligman, Andrew L. Geers, Lauren Kramer, Kelly S. Clemens, Keenan A. Pituch, Ben Colagiuri, Hilary A. Marusak, Christine A. Rabinak, Natalie Turner, Michael Nedley   +9 more
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Dental fear, anxiety, and phobia; causes, diagnostic criteria and the medical and social impact

Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences, 2022
Despite technological advances in modern medical science and practice, many people still associate dental treatment with unpleasant emotional sensations and pain.
Nadya Tsetsova Avramova
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Dental phobia is no contraindication for oral implant therapy [PDF]

, 2013
OBJECTIVES Dental phobia is a psychological disease and a possible contraindication for implant therapy. The study aimed to show that implant therapy in dental-phobic patients (DP, test group) after adequate psychological and dental pretreatment (PDPT ...
Katsoulis, Joannis, Enkling, Norbert, Ramseier, Christoph Andreas, Colombo, Alessandra, Hardt, Katharina, Jöhren, Peter, Mericske, Regina   +6 more
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Modality of fear cues affects acoustic startle potentiation but not heart-rate response in patients with dental phobia

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
The acoustic startle response (SR) has consistently been shown to be enhanced by fear-arousing cross-modal background stimuli in phobics. Intra-modal fear-potentiation of acoustic SR was rarely investigated and generated inconsistent results. The present
Andre eWannemueller, Gudrun eSartory, Karin eElsesser, Thomas eLohrmann, Hans Peter Joehren   +4 more
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Clinical study on nitrous oxide sedation in children oral treatment [PDF]

Kouqiang yixue
Objective To analyze the efficacy of nitrous oxide/oxygen (N2O/O2) inhalation sedation in the root canal treatment of deciduous teeth in children with dental phobia, and explore the feasibility of refined drug delivery.
YU Shaoling, LI Heng, XING Xianghui
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Evaluation of physico-mechanical properties of dental plaster modified with pulverized acrylic waste [PDF]

, 2023
Background: Dental plaster is most widely used to make temporary casts and as an investment medium during the fabrication of removable complete and partial denture prostheses. Dental plasters exhibit poor mechanical properties.
Alla, Rama Krishna, Robbi, Keerthana, Sajjan MC, Suresh, Vasavi, Majji, Ponnapalli, Sai Vishnu, Ramaraju, AV, Av, Ramaraju, Medicharla, Uma Devi,, Keerthana, Robbi, Devimedicharla, Uma   +9 more
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Dental Anxiety in Children: A Review of the Contributing Factors [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2018
Dental anxiety is a challenge faced by the dental professionals while treating young children. Many factors have been reported as contributing factors that influence and affect the level of dental anxiety in children.
Amerah A Alasmari, Ghadah S Aldossari, Mohammed S Aldossary   +2 more
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