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Stress and the Dental Situation
Published in Eli Ilana, Oral Psychophysiology, 2020
Dental treatment is a medical discipline requiring a lifelong interaction with the dentist and imposing constant demands for cooperation from the patient (e.g., preserving oral hygiene, periodic examinations). Its success, therefore, is based on developing proper patient-dentist interpersonal relationships which will enable mutual trust.
Dental care for children
Published in Paul Lambden, Dental Law and Ethics, 2018
However, the Children Act 1989 section 3(5) states that any person who has charge of a child may do ‘what is reasonable in all the circumstances of the case for the purpose of safeguarding or promoting the child’s welfare’. This could include dental treatment. However, although emergency or routine treatment might be included irreversible procedures would require the consent of a person with parental responsibility.4 In emergency situations, therefore, a child can at times be treated without a parent’s knowledge or consent. A dental example might be replacing a front tooth which has been knocked out in an accident at school, where delay would reduce the likelihood of successful reimplantation. In this situation the dentist acts in the child’s best interest and indeed it might be considered negligent not to do so.3
Oral problems: speech, diet and oral care
Published in Jeremy Playfer, John Hindle, Andrew Lees, Parkinson's Disease in the Older Patient, 2018
Lizzy Marks, Karen Hyland, Janice Fiske
Individuals are more amenable to dental treatment in the early stages of PD. At this point, they require the provision of high-quality, low-maintenance dental care. It is especially pertinent to put long-term preventive measures in place to minimise the need for further invasive dental treatment. It is important for the individual with PD and/or their carer to realise that the dental team understands both the process of PD and the problems associated with it; and that they are a part of their multidisciplinary care team.
Effectiveness of hypnosis on pain and anxiety in dentistry: Narrative review
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2022
Julio José Silva, Joyce Da Silva, Luiz Felipe Souza, Danúbia Sá-Caputo, Celia Martins Cortez, Laisa Liane Paineiras-Domingos, Mário Bernardo-Filho
According to Resolution 82/2008 (CFO, 2008), the dentist qualified in hypnosis can use it as an auxiliary resource in clinical practice to (i) treat and/or control anxieties, fears, and phobias related to dental procedures and/or psychosomatic conditions related to dentistry; (ii) to stimulate the adoption of hygiene habits, adaptation to treatment, use of medication, food reeducation, functional habits, among others; (iii) treat and control neuromuscular disorders and intervene on autonomic reflexes; (iv) prepare patients for surgery, contributing to the improvement of the patient’s condition; prepare patients to be seen by other professionals; (v) work in the adaptation and motivation directed to the dental treatment;(vi) use hypnotic anesthesia in relevant cases; and, in other processes/situations related to the field of expertise of the dentist.
Effect of governmental strategies on antibiotic prescription in dentistry
Published in Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, 2020
Bodil Lund, Andreas Cederlund, Margareta Hultin, Frida Lundgren
The Swedish Dental Health Register started in 2008 and registers all dental care subsided by public means, which accounts for more than 95% of all the dental care provided to the adult Swedish population [16]. Children and adolescents dental care up to the age of 23 is not included in the register. However, at the time of study the register accounted for individuals above 21 years. Furthermore, dental care to patients with high requirements due to long-term disease or disability are not included in the data because of inadequate reporting. According to statistics from the counties of Sweden, this group of individuals accounts for approximately 2% of the total population [17]. All the dental treatments in The Dental Health Register are coded with the primary aim to couple the diagnosis and type of treatment to the economical compensation system. This coding system was used to retrieve statistics on treatments with increased likelihood of being accompanied with antibiotic prescription. Consequently, visits regarding any type of dental treatment during the period 2009–2017 were selected for the analyses.
Association between sensory processing and dental fear among female undergraduates in Japan
Published in Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, 2019
Mika Ogawa, Nozomu Harano, Kentaro Ono, Yukiyo Shigeyama-Tada, Tomoko Hamasaki, Seiji Watanabe
Dental treatment-related stimuli provoke dental fear via classical conditioning [18], it may also provoke dental fear through biological and genetic mechanisms. Patients with dental fear can be highly sensitive to dental treatment (e.g. the sight of a needle, sensation of the drill, taste of medications, and bright dental light) even if it is a painless procedure. It is suggested that dental fear is associated with lower distress tolerance to aversive or uncomfortable emotional states [23], and in turn, lower distress tolerance might be associated with higher sensitivity to sensation and/or emotion. We postulate that patients with hypersensitivity to sensation can have more to negative responses to dental procedures. Moreover, fear conditioning might happen more easily for individuals with an extreme sensory processing pattern who have negative experiences, resulting in the subsequent development/maintenance of fear.