Adult Dental Patients With Avoidance Behaviours

adult dental patients with avoidance behaviours

Adult Dental Patients With Avoidance Behaviours

Fear is an adoptive human response in the face of danger. This normal and even useful reaction has a protective aspect, while phobia is a pathologic, irrational, and intense fear of a situation or an issue (1). Dental phobia or odontophobia is a pathologic fear that affects about 5% to 15% of adults in the industrialized countries (2). Dental fear is a complex multidimensional phenomenon that i...

Food Avoidance Eating Behaviours in Children

The aim of this study was to examine the contribution of a broad range of maternal feeding practices in predicting parental reports of food avoidance eating behaviours in young children, after controlling for child temperament, and maternal dietary restraint which have previously been associated with feeding problems. One hundred and eight mothers of children aged between 2-6 years completed se...

Dental anxiety among adult patients and its correlation with self-assessed dental status and treatment needs.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the dental anxiety levels and to assess its correlation with self-assessed dental status and treatment needs of patients. METHODS The study was conducted at the Out Patient Department of Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan Institute of Oral Health Sciences, Karachi. Using non-probability quota sampling, the study included the first 32 patients between 18 and 35 years of age, visitin...

Dental anxiety, dental health attitudes, and bodily symptoms as correlates of asthma symptoms in adult dental patients with asthma.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between asthma symptoms and dental anxiety, dental health attitudes, and physical symptoms and sensations such as watery eyes, upset stomach, headaches, and nausea in a group of adult dental patients with asthma. These variables are believed to be highly related to stress levels, which can exacerbate asthma symptoms during dental...