A Simple Technique to Manage Anxiety During Tooth Extraction

Pain‐free dental treatment is important for reducing anxiety, treatment completion, and enhancing acceptance of future dental treatment. Injectable local anesthesia assists this pain‐free approach but can cause anxiety in few patients. Achieving proper anesthesia is important to complete the procedu...

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Autores principales: Kunusoth, Ramesh, Colvenkar, Shreya, Alwala, Aditya Mohan, Bharadwaj, Sneha, Boyapati, Ramanarayana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Medical Education
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9576365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36277533
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29275
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author Kunusoth, Ramesh
Colvenkar, Shreya
Alwala, Aditya Mohan
Bharadwaj, Sneha
Boyapati, Ramanarayana
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description Pain‐free dental treatment is important for reducing anxiety, treatment completion, and enhancing acceptance of future dental treatment. Injectable local anesthesia assists this pain‐free approach but can cause anxiety in few patients. Achieving proper anesthesia is important to complete the procedure successfully, thereby adding to patient's care and comfort. This article describes a simple technique to manage dental anxiety using virtual reality headset. Audio visual aid helped the patient to relax and eliminate the phobia of local anesthesia injection during surgical tooth extraction. The simple technique enhanced the patient’s ability to continue the dental procedure.
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spelling pubmed-95763652022-10-20 A Simple Technique to Manage Anxiety During Tooth Extraction Kunusoth, Ramesh Colvenkar, Shreya Alwala, Aditya Mohan Bharadwaj, Sneha Boyapati, Ramanarayana Cureus Medical Education Pain‐free dental treatment is important for reducing anxiety, treatment completion, and enhancing acceptance of future dental treatment. Injectable local anesthesia assists this pain‐free approach but can cause anxiety in few patients. Achieving proper anesthesia is important to complete the procedure successfully, thereby adding to patient's care and comfort. This article describes a simple technique to manage dental anxiety using virtual reality headset. Audio visual aid helped the patient to relax and eliminate the phobia of local anesthesia injection during surgical tooth extraction. The simple technique enhanced the patient’s ability to continue the dental procedure. Cureus 2022-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9576365/ /pubmed/36277533 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29275 Text en Copyright © 2022, Kunusoth et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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