ArticleInternational dental journal2024
Can Binaural Beat Music Be Useful as a Method to Reduce Dental Patients' Anxiety?
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- Methods used in adult dental extraction patients to improve psychoemotional status: systematic review.BMC oral health · 2026Pooled it
- The effect of music and white noise on patients' anxiety and pain during surgery for impacted mandibular third molar: a single-blind randomized controlled trial.European journal of medical research · 2025Trial
- Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Managing Preoperative Anxiety in the Context of Odontectomy: A Systematic Review.Dentistry journal · 2026Review
- Effectiveness of Binaural Beats in Reducing Dental Pain and Anxiety among Children and Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.International journal of clinical pediatric dentistry · 2025Article
- Nurse-Led Binaural Beat Intervention for Anxiety Reduction in Pterygium Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Beating stress: music with monaural beats reduces anxiety and improves mood in a non-clinical population.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Music Therapy as a Tool for Alleviating Anxiety and Pain in Patients Undergoing Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.Noise & healthArticle
- Binaural auditory beats vs music of choice as audio distraction behaviour guidance technique among children: A randomized controlled trial.Journal of oral biology and craniofacial researchArticle
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- Effectiveness of binaural beats in alleviating anxiety during periodontal flap surgery: A randomized controlled trial.Journal of Indian Society of PeriodontologyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundOne of the main issues in dentistry and a barrier to offering dental treatment is anxiety. The usage of music is one of the nonmedical ways to reduce anxiety. Binaural beat technology is used as a music treatment technique. The goal of this study wasto determine whether employing binaural beat technology during and after dental appointments can help patients feel less anxiety and pain.
methodsIn this clinical trial, 80 patients who were candidates for mandibular wisdom tooth surgery (in 2 test and control groups) were examined. In the control group, after the injection of anaesthesia and before surgery, they waited for 10 minutes and during this time no intervention was done. In the test group, thought, after the injection of anaesthesia, the patients were asked to listen to binaural beat music with headphones for 10 minutes. The level of anxiety of the patients before and after the intervention was checked with the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and finally the data were entered into SPSS version 21 software.
resultsThe score of overt anxiety (P = .524) and covert anxiety (P = .118) before the start of the study was not significant between the 2 groups, but overt anxiety (P = .001) and covert anxiety (P = .000) after the intervention in the test group decreased significantly.
conclusionsThe research showed that the use of binaural beat music has significantly reduced the level of overt and covert anxiety in patients and can be used as an alternative nonpharmacologic method to reduce anxiety.
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