dental dear and anxiety

Question 1

dental fear

Answer 1

fear - normal emotional reaction to one or more threatening stimuli

Question 2

dental anxiety

Answer 2

sense of apprehension that something dreadful is going to happen in relation to the treatment , coupled with loss of control

Question 3

dental phobia

Answer 3

severe dental anxiety manifested as a marked or persistent anxiety related to a specific procedure/ object or the whole dental situation

Question 4

why is dental anxiety so prevalent

Answer 4

past negative experience 
influence of family and peers 
media representation 
expectation of pain 
poor knowledge of modern techniques 
past portrayal

Question 5

how do children become dentally anxious

Answer 5

modelling - model behaviour of family
conditioning - previous experience
information - frightening information, wrong word choice e.g be brave gives connotations of something scary

Question 6

starting risk (evidence based dentistry)

Answer 6

chance of outcome in untreated groups

Question 7

modified risk (evidence based dentistry)

Answer 7

chance of outcome in treated groups

Question 8

relative risk

Answer 8

used to compare risks between different groups
makes small risks sound big - often used in journalism
example - Say the absolute risk of developing a disease is 4 in 100 in non-smokers. Say the relative risk of the disease is increased by 50% in smokers. The 50% relates to the 4 - so the absolute increase in the risk is 50% of 4, which is 2. So, the absolute risk of smokers developing this disease is 6 in 100.

Question 9

absolute risk

Answer 9

true risk
example - Say the absolute risk of developing a disease is 4 in 100 in non-smokers. Say the relative risk of the disease is increased by 50% in smokers. The 50% relates to the 4 - so the absolute increase in the risk is 50% of 4, which is 2. So, the absolute risk of smokers developing this disease is 6 in 100.

Question 10

risk vs odds (evidence based dentistry)

Answer 10

risk - number of outcomes / total number that could’ve experienced the outcome
odds - number that experienced outcome/ number that didn’t