Psychopathology and psychiatric diagnosis in subjects with dental phobia☆
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2017, Journal of DentistryCitation Excerpt :Dental anxiety may directly affect the oral health and indirectly increase the burden of dental treatment. Several studies have reported a prevalence level relating to dental anxiety of 5–60% worldwide amongst adults [1–5]. The variation seen in reported prevalence data could be due to the differing severity of dental anxiety.
Anxiety sensitivity: Another reason to separate dental fears from blood-injury fears?
2014, Journal of Anxiety DisordersCitation Excerpt :In the study of De Jongh, Bongaarts, and Vermeule (1998), none of the participants with dental phobia fainted during dental treatment. The phobic stimulus also seem to be different for the two conditions: the most distressing stimuli for blood–injury phobics are reported to be the sight of blood, needles and wounds; whereas dental phobics list the sight and sound of the aerator and dental treatment settings as their top-feared situations (De Jongh, Muris, ter Horst, & Duyx, 1995; Kleinknecht, Klepac, & Alexander, 1973; Roy-Byrne, Milgrom, Tay, Weinstein, & Katon, 1994; Stouthard & Hoogstraten, 1987). De Jongh, Bongaarts, and Vermeule (1998) showed that the typical phobic stimulus for blood phobics (i.e. sight of blood) was feared by only 8% of dental phobics.
Dental anxiety in relation to neuroticism and pain sensitivity. A twin study
2011, Journal of Anxiety DisordersCitation Excerpt :This has been explicitly recognized in the so-called Seattle diagnostic system which specifies four variants of dental anxiety (Milgrom, Weinstein, Kleinknecht, & Getz, 1985): (I) simple conditioned fear of specific dental stimuli; (II) anxiety about somatic reactions (e.g., gagging) during dental treatment; (III) generalized anxiety states and multiphobic symptoms making dental treatment difficult; and (IV) distrust of dental personnel. While there is debate over whether these categories correspond to psychiatric diagnoses according to for instance the DSM system (Roy-Byrne et al., 1994), the Seattle system has proven useful in clinical practice (Moore, Brødsgaard, & Birn, 1991). As maintained by Moore, Brødsgaard, Berggren, and Carlsson (1991) and Moore, Brødsgaard, and Birn (1991), while relaxation and desensitization are sufficient in the treatment of simple conditioned phobias, with the more complex diagnostic types a broader psychotherapeutic approach is indicated.
Negative events and their potential risk of precipitating pathological forms of dental anxiety
2009, Journal of Anxiety DisordersCitation Excerpt :This is in contrast with results of earlier studies showing significant associations between several such traumatic experiences and dental anxiety (Friedlander et al., 1987; Smyth, 1999; Walker et al., 1996). A plausible explanation for this difference may be that the current study used a regular sample of relatively ‘healthy’ subjects, while the aforementioned studies used samples taken from subpopulations consisting of individuals with an abuse history (Walker et al., 1996), displaying high levels of dental anxiety (Roy-Byrne, Milgrom, Khoon-Mei, Weinstein, & Katon, 1994; Smyth, 1999) or suffering from psychopathological conditions of which the level of co-morbidity is likely to be high (Friedlander et al., 1987). Thus, the fact that in the current study no association between dental anxiety and any DSM-IV-TR traumatic experience was found, seems plausible because of the low degree of co-morbidity in the present sample.
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This work was supported by grants 507-RR05346, 1-P30-DF09743, 1-R03-DE09804 from NDIR/NIH.