introduction. the professional education can be a very stressful experience. the high level of stress often leads to disruptions in physiological and psychological health. although a moderate degree of stress can promote students’ creativity and achievement, the intense pressures and relentless demands of medical education may destroy personal relationship and ultimately, affect patient care. t...

This article presents a child-centered philosophy for managing young dental patients. The goals of this approach are to reduce children’s dental fear to a minimum and to encourage a positive, accepting attitude toward regular dental care. Interventions which focus on the young child’s emotional needs in the dental setting are encouraged. The dentist uses techniques designed to help the child gr...

Background and Aim: Dental implants with angled abutments are often inserted in the anterior maxillary region due to the status of the residual ridge and aesthetic considerations. The purpose of this study was to assess stress and strain distributions in the premaxillary bone around dental implants by means of finite element analysis (FEA). Materials and Methods: Four three-dimensional (3D) fi...

Introduction Individuals with cerebral palsy (CP) often present with oral alterations that impact oral health and require dental treatment. Aim This study aimed to evaluate the use of conscious sedation with nitrous oxide (N2O) to control stress during dental treatment in individuals with CP using as parameters: Venham score (VS), heart rate (HR), and respiratory rate (RR). Materials and me...

BACKGROUND Waiting for a medical procedure can exert significant feelings of state anxiety in patients. Music listening has been shown to be effective in decreasing anxiety levels. No study so far examined the potential anxiety and stress-reducing effect of a music intervention on pre-treatment anxiety and stress in patients waiting for dental hygiene treatment. Knowing whether the anxiety-redu...

Fifty patients with temporomandibular pain dysfunction syndrome were examined. Seventy-eight percent and 32 percent were female and male respectively. The white collar workers were more frequently affected. Emotional stress, dental malocclusion and a history of trauma were the main causes. Treatment consists of reassurance, relaxed jaw movements and exercises, anxiolytic drugs, thermotherapy, b...

BACKGROUND Increased levels of anxiety may affect a patient's receptiveness to treatment, health care information and behaviour modification. This study was undertaken to assess pre-treatment anxiety in a dental hygiene recall population maintaining a schedule of regular preventive care appointments. METHODS The sample population consisted of 46 consecutive adult recall patients waiting for t...

available from: http://jdr.sagepub.com/content/68/5/780.short. Accessed December 18, 2015. 68 Summers AO, Wireman J, Vimy MJ, Lorscheider FL, Marshall B, Levy SB, Bennet S, Billard L. Mercury released from dental ‘silver’ fillings provokes an increase in mercuryand antibioticresistant bacteria in oral and intestinal flora of primates. Antimicrob Agents and Chemother. 1993; 37(4): 825-834. Avail...

Thiol-ene systems demonstrate numerous advantageous polymerization properties in regards to rapid curing, high conversion, minimal oxygen inhibition, and reduced shrinkage stress. However, one of the drawbacks of thiol-ene systems is that commercially available monomers are not able to achieve the mechanical properties required for use as dental restorative materials. Methacrylate systems on th...