The dental fear and anxiety is an emotional distress condition that may lead to poor oral health in children, adolescents and adults. Researches of several studies investigated the origin, influence factors, physical and physiological responses, and types of management and intervention for dental phobia through various sources. Qualitative study utilized YouTube to gain insight to the public's perspective of dental fear and anxiety and understand the psychological impact in children and adolescents. Studies from collective literature search through EBSCOhost, Medline, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar databases revealed methods of intervention to help reduce dental anxiety and the avoidance of dental treatments. And a pharmacological study on 5-HT 3 antagonist may guide the way to discover a better anxiolytic that can potentially block the anxiogentic effects in patients with panic disorder and social phobia including dental fear and anxiety.
The Studies of Dental Fear and Anxiety in Children, Adolescents, and Adults
Generally, when people experience emotional distress such as fear from any circumstances our bodies will activate the fight or flight response to cope with the specific threat (Gordon, Heimberg, Tellez, & Ismail, 2013). It is likely that after those feelings had been introduced to us, we then developed a sense of worry for potential future threat. As Gordon, Heimberg, Tellez, and Ismail (2013) had established that this feeling of anticipation is what caused the conditioned response in our bodies called anxiety, the concept of phobia can be arrange in various degrees of severity. A closer look of dental fear and anxiety (DFA) study in children and adolescents revealed that anxiety disorder may developed early in life ...
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... therapy (CBT), relaxation training and techniques, dental fear and anxiety in children, adolescents and adults could be better treated in the future.
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...inical therapy that I have learned throughout the program. As a dental hygiene student I’m already implementing ethical, legal and regulatory concepts for the provision of dental hygiene process of care, and I will utilize this foundation to throughout my career as a professional oral health care provider. In addition, as dental hygienist I will pursue life-long learning to provide client care based decisions using the most current evidence-based research. Thus I pledge to continue to learn and expand my skills and knowledge throughout my career. Graduating from CADH has provided me with great academic knowledge and clinical skills necessary to apply the concepts of health promotion and disease prevention. The experience that I have acquired at CADH will allow me to provide client specific, empathetic, empathetic and suitable treatment to all of my future clients.
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