Objectives To determine pre operative anxiety & stress levels in patients undergoing minor oral surgical procedures including tooth extraction. Material and Methods: .The present study was conducted in patients attending the department of oral & maxillofacial surgery indira Gandhi government dental college Jammu. Minor oral surgical procedures include tooth extractions, impactions, peri apical ...

PURPOSE To prospectively examine the psychological impact of surgical third molar removal, and to identify possible psychological risk factors for the development of dental anxiety and symptoms of psychological trauma. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients (N = 71) scheduled for surgical mandibular third molar removal were assessed regarding operative and psychological variables immediately postoper...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to determine the effect of music therapy on patients suffering dental anxiety. In addition, a second objective was to determine the correlation between salivary cortisol and other physiologic parameters. METHODS 34 patients were randomly assigned to the control group and the experimental group. For each patient was measured for salivary cortisol, stimula...

BACKGROUND Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) is found to be a promising and a viable alternative for in vivo exposure in the treatment of specific phobias. However, its usefulness for treating dental phobia is unexplored. The aims of the present study are to determine: (a) the efficacy of VRET versus informational pamphlet (IP) control group in terms of dental trait and state anxiety redu...

The possible influence of fear of death and attitude toward death were studied related to dental anxiety in Hungarian elementary and secondary school subjects (n = 277; 114 males, 163 females; age between 8 and 18 years). Dental fear and anxiety scores were DAS: 10.8 +/- 3.6; DFS: 40.6 +/- 15.6; STAI-S: 38.0 +/- 11.0; STAI-T: 40.3 +/- 10.0. Lester's Attitude Toward Death Scale scores were 6.3 +...

OBJECTIVES To translate the English version of Dental Anxiety Inventory (DAxI) and its short-form (SDAxI) and to validate their use in Hong Kong Chinese. METHODS The DAxI and SDAxI were translated into Chinese. A total of 500 adults (18-64 years) were interviewed, the Chinese DAxI, Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90), Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) ...

BACKGROUND A growing body of literature describes the performance of dental fear questionnaires in various countries. We describe the psychometric properties of Greek versions of the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) and the Dental Fear Survey (DFS) in adult Greek patients. METHODS Greek versions of the MDAS and DFS were administered to two samples of adult dental patients. In the first sa...