Kaufman E, Rand R S, Gordon M, Cohen H S
Hospital Oral Medicine Service, Hebrew University Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
Community Dent Health. 1992 Jun;9(2):125-32.
Dental anxiety may be a serious limiting factor in providing adequate dental treatment. The present study sought to define the prevalence of dental anxiety in a cross-section of young Israeli adults (389 male Israeli army recruits) to correlate anxiety scores with their oral health status and to compare the findings with existing data. The main stimuli triggering anxiety were found to be in the following descending order: seeing the needle, feeling the drill, and feeling pain despite local anaesthesia. A positive correlation was found between the degree of anxiety and the dental status; the highest percentage of untreated patients was found in the high anxiety group. It is concluded that young adult Israeli males manifest dental anxiety in a manner similar to that reported in the United States and Sweden. Dental anxiety may be an important factor in the avoidance of seeking dental care.
牙科焦虑可能是提供充分牙科治疗的一个严重限制因素。本研究旨在确定以色列年轻成年人（389名以色列男性新兵）样本中牙科焦虑的患病率，将焦虑评分与其口腔健康状况相关联，并将研究结果与现有数据进行比较。发现引发焦虑的主要刺激因素按以下降序排列：看到针头、感觉到钻头以及尽管进行了局部麻醉仍感到疼痛。焦虑程度与牙齿状况之间存在正相关；在高焦虑组中发现未治疗患者的比例最高。得出的结论是，以色列年轻成年男性表现出的牙科焦虑与美国和瑞典报告的情况相似。牙科焦虑可能是避免寻求牙科护理的一个重要因素。
