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The relationship between subjective oral health and dental fear in Korean adolescents
BACKGROUND: This study is aimed to evaluate the level of fear and to reduce the overall fear, thereby enabling patients to receive treatment via timely visits. METHODS: In a survey conducted by 460 South Korean middle school students, we used 453 data that faithfully responded to the survey. Multipl...
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The Korean Dental Society of Anesthsiology
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5766092/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29349351 http://dx.doi.org/10.17245/jdapm.2017.17.4.289 |
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author | Won, Young-Soon Shim, Youn-Soo An, So-Youn |
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description | BACKGROUND: This study is aimed to evaluate the level of fear and to reduce the overall fear, thereby enabling patients to receive treatment via timely visits. METHODS: In a survey conducted by 460 South Korean middle school students, we used 453 data that faithfully responded to the survey. Multiple regression analysis was conducted to investigate the factors influencing subjective oral health and dental fear. The significance level used for statistical significance was α = 0.05. RESULTS: The level of fear was higher for upper grade, female students. The factors affecting dental fear were higher for gingival bleeding and dental pain. Regarding factors for dental fear affecting subjective oral health, lower fear of puncture needle and tooth removal tool resulted in higher subjective oral health. CONCLUSION: The study found that adolescents had higher fear of dental care when they had gingival bleeding and tooth pain. Gingival bleeding is a symptom of early gingival disease and dental pain is likely due to advanced dental caries. These results suggested that it is necessary to have a program to reduce dental fear and anxiety as well as a program to prevent dental diseases through regular periodic screening and education. |
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spelling | pubmed-57660922018-01-18 The relationship between subjective oral health and dental fear in Korean adolescents Won, Young-Soon Shim, Youn-Soo An, So-Youn J Dent Anesth Pain Med Original Article BACKGROUND: This study is aimed to evaluate the level of fear and to reduce the overall fear, thereby enabling patients to receive treatment via timely visits. METHODS: In a survey conducted by 460 South Korean middle school students, we used 453 data that faithfully responded to the survey. Multiple regression analysis was conducted to investigate the factors influencing subjective oral health and dental fear. The significance level used for statistical significance was α = 0.05. RESULTS: The level of fear was higher for upper grade, female students. The factors affecting dental fear were higher for gingival bleeding and dental pain. Regarding factors for dental fear affecting subjective oral health, lower fear of puncture needle and tooth removal tool resulted in higher subjective oral health. CONCLUSION: The study found that adolescents had higher fear of dental care when they had gingival bleeding and tooth pain. Gingival bleeding is a symptom of early gingival disease and dental pain is likely due to advanced dental caries. These results suggested that it is necessary to have a program to reduce dental fear and anxiety as well as a program to prevent dental diseases through regular periodic screening and education. The Korean Dental Society of Anesthsiology 2017-12 2017-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5766092/ /pubmed/29349351 http://dx.doi.org/10.17245/jdapm.2017.17.4.289 Text en Copyright © 2017 Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Won, Young-Soon Shim, Youn-Soo An, So-Youn The relationship between subjective oral health and dental fear in Korean adolescents |
title | The relationship between subjective oral health and dental fear in Korean adolescents |
title_full | The relationship between subjective oral health and dental fear in Korean adolescents |
title_fullStr | The relationship between subjective oral health and dental fear in Korean adolescents |
title_full_unstemmed | The relationship between subjective oral health and dental fear in Korean adolescents |
title_short | The relationship between subjective oral health and dental fear in Korean adolescents |
title_sort | relationship between subjective oral health and dental fear in korean adolescents |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5766092/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29349351 http://dx.doi.org/10.17245/jdapm.2017.17.4.289 |
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