ArticleDentistry journal2019
'Message to Dentist': Facilitating Communication with Dentally Anxious Children.
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- Your Teeth, You Are in Control: A Process Evaluation of the Implementation of a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Intervention for Reducing Child Dental Anxiety.Community dentistry and oral epidemiology · 2025Article
- Retrospective Study Regarding the Correlation between Dental Anxiety and Color Preferences in Children with Severe Early Childhood Caries.Dentistry journal · 2024Article
- Children's Anxiety Levels and Their Perspectives on Dental Experiences in Students' Clinical Evaluation.International journal of clinical pediatric dentistry · 2023Article
- Classifying Children's Behaviour at the Dentist-What about 'Burnout'?Dentistry journal · 2023Article
- Children's Perceptions of Dental Experiences and Ways to Improve Them.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Moving toward Fear-Free Husbandry and Veterinary Care for Horses.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- A survey of patients' concerns about visiting the dentist and how dentists can help.Journal of oral rehabilitation · 2022Article
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Abstract
Dental anxiety affects children worldwide and can have negative consequences on oral health. This study aimed to evaluate a novel communication aid 'message to dentist' (MTD), as part of a wider cognitive behavioural therapy approach to reduce dental anxiety in young patients. Dentally anxious children, aged 9-16 years, were invited to complete the MTD proforma, before and following their course of treatment. They scored how worried they were and their anticipated pain levels on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the worst outcome). They also wrote down their coping plans and post-treatment reflections. One hundred and five children, from a UK general dental practice and a hospital clinic, were included. They had a mean age of 11.6 years, and 65% were female. There was a significant reduction in self-report worry (from 4.9 to 2.1) and anticipated pain (from 5.1 to 2.0) scores (
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