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Dental dilemmas: can psychiatry help?
Author(s) -
Hordern Anthony
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
australian dental journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.701
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1834-7819
pISSN - 0045-0421
DOI - 10.1111/j.1834-7819.1977.tb04515.x
Subject(s) - psychiatry , medicine , dentistry , psychology
A bstract — An overlap exists between dentistry and psychiatry. The dentist, whose role is inevitably of considerable psychological significance, should be aware of the common psychiatric “disease entities”, notably depressive illnesses, which can present through dental symptoms. Such disorders seldom respond to dental manoeuvres per se but often respond to psychiatric treatment. Some specific psychodental syndromes are described and illustrative case histories are given.