Murad Muhannad H, Ingle Navin A, Assery Mansour K
Postgraduate Resident, Advance Education General Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Riyadh Elm University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Programe Director, Dental Public Health, Riyadh Elm University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 Sep 30;9(9):4530-4535. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_607_20. eCollection 2020 Sep.
Dental anxiety refers to a set of complex psychological issues bearing a significant impact in individual's lives reflecting in the form of dental visit avoidance, poor dental health status and decreases oral health related quality of life. Hence, it is imperative to consider those factors associated with dental anxiety so as to treat and promote better oral health. The review aimed to assess various factors associated with dental fear and anxiety.
Literature search was done from Pubmed and Google scholar search engines to identify publications which explored factors associated with dental fear and anxiety.
Research evidence pointed a significant relationship of age, gender, maternal anxiety, previous dental experience, and number of siblings with dental fear and anxiety (DFA).
Findings of the review clearly suggest that a better understanding of factors causing dental anxiety and phobia will help preventing dental avoidance and providing better care.
牙科焦虑是指一系列复杂的心理问题,对个人生活有重大影响,表现为避免看牙、口腔健康状况不佳以及口腔健康相关生活质量下降。因此,必须考虑那些与牙科焦虑相关的因素,以便治疗并促进更好的口腔健康。本综述旨在评估与牙科恐惧和焦虑相关的各种因素。
通过PubMed和谷歌学术搜索引擎进行文献检索,以确定探讨与牙科恐惧和焦虑相关因素的出版物。
研究证据表明年龄、性别、母亲的焦虑、既往牙科经历以及兄弟姐妹数量与牙科恐惧和焦虑(DFA)之间存在显著关系。
该综述的结果清楚地表明,更好地了解导致牙科焦虑和恐惧症的因素将有助于预防看牙回避行为并提供更好的护理。