The prevalence of dental anxiety and its association with pain and other variables among adult patients with irreversible pulpitis

• DOI: 10.1186/s12903-018-0563-x
• Publication Date: 2018-06-07T08:12:46Z
• Authors: Lei Dou; Margaret Maria Va...; Yan Zhang; Xiaoming Fu; Ping Ji; Deqin Yang
• Keywords: Pulpitis

The aim is to investigate the prevalence of dental anxiety and its association with pain other related factors in adult patients irreversible pulpitis. One hundred thirty pulpitis were included this cross-sectional study. Participants asked fill out an information table a battery questionnaires assess their level anxiety, at first most recent experience, intensity before/during present endodontic treatment. that participants displayed during treatment was also evaluated by dentists using rating scale. Data analyzed t-test, ANOVA, Spearman correlation tests. 83.1% suffered from moderate or high 16.2% met criteria for specific phobia. Subjects who had higher MDAS scores more likely postpone visits (P < 0.05). bad experiences visit anxious Pain 0.01) before 0.05) important factor correlating among participants. Notably, 36.2% severe based on dentist's judgement. A percentage people suffer anxiety. have strongly positive Effective control endodontics beneficial manage