Dental phobia among Saudis

✍ Scribed by Ibrahim Al-Khodair; Saeed Al-Balawi; Hadeel Al-Khamis; Isaac Marks

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 476 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1070-9797
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1522-7154(1996)2:3<140::aid-anxi5>3.0.co;2-t

✦ Synopsis

This study compares dental fear and phobias among patients attending: (1) primary care dental clinics, or (2) specialist dental clinics, or (?) nondental clinics. Of SS? patients, 539fiom dental clinics and 314fiom nondental clinics were interoiewed in a structured interview. Patients $-om primary dental clinics and @om specialist dental clinics did not difle'er. However, nondental clinic patients had more dental phobia and more avoidance of dental clinics. Dental clinic patients had more chronic dental problems than did nondental clinic attenders. Dental phobia was much more common among women, whose onset age was younger than in men, and the phobia interfered greatly with dental care. Dental phobics had fainted more ofen during dental treatment, had more chronic dental problems, more family history of dental phobia, and more blood and specificphobias. Most of the dental phobics reported dental trauma before the fear started. Anxiety 2:140-144 (1996). o 1996W'?ky-Liss, Znc.