The Danish dental phobia dentists stress
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It is estimated that 10-20 percent of Danes are so afraid of the dentist that they have completely dropped the regular dental visits. And that about. 4 out of 10 adult Danes suffer from dental phobia to some degree.
Besides having important consequences for the individual, they have high levels of dental phobia also large societal consequences. It costs society dearly in sickness and in grants to expensive treatments that may be needed after years of neglect and lack of inspection by the dentist.
The fear of dentists affects all groups in society, and not only people with limited resources and profits. "There is a slight over-representation of unemployed, but all groups are affected, including managers and bank managers," said Rod Moore, a researcher at the University of Aarhus, Viborg Folkeblad.
The lack of correlation between educational level and frequency of dental phobia may be related to the cause of dental fear to be found in childhood.
Now dentists with fright
A group Aarhus dentists and psychologists have been awarded 190,000 DKK from Central Jutland to a project to cure dental phobia. One objective of the project is to gain a larger share of the population to go regularly to the dentist. And it is the practitioners who must become better at helping patients with dental fear.
"It is about meeting the patient on a human level. It is important that the dentist sits down and takes one conversation with the patient about this fear and listen to the experiences patients had with dentists. Experiences, which often causes dental fear. And so it is very important that the conversation is not happening in the dental chair, which the patient fears so much, because it is about creating trust, "said Rod Moore, who is project manager at the Research and Treatment Center dental phobia at the School of Dentistry in Aarhus.
"70 percent of people with dental phobia have had a traumatic experience at a dentist before the age of 12 years, and it creates problems for them today. But I hope the project will help a lot of them, "said Rod Moore on.
The dentists also been affected by dental fear
In the description of the project also provides that dentists can get stressful than having to deal with the resistance they encounter from the patient when they have to deal with anxious patients. It can be both mentally and physically exhausting and mean risk for poor treatment of the patient or symptoms of burnout among dentists.
DDS, PhD, dr. odont. Rod Moore has, among other things in 2006 defended a doctoral thesis on dental fear and pain at Aarhus University with the title " Psychosocial Aspects of dental anxiety and clinical pain phenomena . " He has also been associated Aarhus Dental School for over 20 years, had been private dentist for 20 years and worked at two universities in the United States, including at Ohio State University, where he also obtained his master's degree. Rod Moore has a wide range of publications behind him and has lectured at several universities in both Europe and America. Recommended Articles:
