IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/epw/ejdent/v4y2023i2id13256.html

Dental Fear in Adult Patients: A Case Report

Author

Listed:
  • Aliki Rontogianni

    (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

  • Anastasia Mitsea

    (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

  • Kety Karayianni

    (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

Abstract

Dental fear is described as the situation that includes feelings of tension, fear, anxiety all three have as a result patients' reluctance to maintain a stable relationship with dental care or makes the dental visit particularly unpleasant. Dental fear appears to have adverse effects on patients' oral health. Dental fear may cause delay in dental treatment thus creating a vicious cycle. The frequency of dental fear in a sample of adult patients seems to be high and appears to be related to certain epidemiological characteristics such as gender, age, education, place of residence. The aim of the study is to present a case of an adult woman 44 years old that had an extremely bad oral health because she was suffering from dental fear, from her adolescence and had more than 20 years to visit the dentist asking for treatment.

Suggested Citation

  • Aliki Rontogianni & Anastasia Mitsea & Kety Karayianni, 2023. "Dental Fear in Adult Patients: A Case Report," European Journal of Dental and Oral Health, European Open Science, vol. 4(2), pages 5-7, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:epw:ejdent:v:4:y:2023:i:2:id:13256
    DOI: 10.24018/ejdent.2023.4.2.256
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejdent/article/view/13256
    File Function: Abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejdent/article/download/13256/2830
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.24018/ejdent.2023.4.2.256?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:epw:ejdent:v:4:y:2023:i:2:id:13256. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Support Team (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejdent .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.