Dentistry Journal, 2021 Dental anxiety and dental phobia are still prevalent among adult individuals and should be considered a dental public health issue. Dental anxiety/phobia is often described as a vicious cycle where avoidance of dental care, poor oral health, and ...
Ulla Wide, Magnus Hakeberg
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Dental Fear, Anxiety, and Phobia – Behavioral Management and Implications for Dentists
Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences, 2023 Clinical management of patients with dental fear, anxiety, and phobia could be a major challenge to daily practice of dental professionals. The aim of the current review was to expand the modern consideration with respect to these issues, and ...
Nadya Tsetsova Avramova
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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 +11 more
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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 +2 more
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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 +9 more
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Why are people afraid of the dentist?:Observations and explanations [PDF]
, 2013 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, L., Freeman, R., Humphris, G.
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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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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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Anxiety and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the Context of Human Brain Evolution:A Role for Theory in DSM-V? [PDF]
, 2008 The “hypervigilance, escape, struggle, tonic immobility”\ud evolutionarily hardwired acute peritraumatic response\ud sequence is important for clinicians to understand. Our\ud commentary supplements the useful article on human\ud tonic immobility (TI) by
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan +1 more
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Systematic review and meta-analysis: anxiety and depressive disorders in offspring of parents with anxiety disorders [PDF]
, 2019 Objective: We conducted meta-analyses to assess risk of anxiety disorders among offspring of parents with anxiety disorders and to establish whether there is evidence of specificity of risk for anxiety disorders as opposed to depression in offspring, and
Creswell, Cathy +2 more
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