Open AccessAvaliação e manejo da ansiedade e fobia odontológica: a psicologia na formação do cirurgião-dentista
Author(s) -
Guilherme Borsato Gomes,
Cecília Luiz Pereira-Stabile,
Vanessa Santiago Ximenes
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista da faculdade de odontologia de porto alegre
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2177-0018
pISSN - 0566-1854
DOI - 10.22456/2177-0018.101020
Subject(s) - anxiety , feeling , coping (psychology) , health professionals , psychology , medicine , dentistry , oral health , psychiatry , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , health care , social psychology , economics , economic growth
Dental fear and anxiety arise from several factors, among them, exposure to previous traumatic experiences with needles, injections and instruments that can cause discomfort. Anxious patients tend to reschedule appointments, avoid treatments and are only available for visits at the dentist when painful symptoms appear, so delayed treatment tends to be more invasive and cause even more emotional damage to the patient, consequently aggravate this feeling and, in turn, create a vicious cycle in which avoiding treatment only makes the oral health condition even worse. It is up to professionals of Dentistry to identify anxiety in patients and make use of resources to manage this anxiety in order to enable an effective dental treatment with less emotional damage to the patient. The aim of this study is to evaluate, by means of a integrative literature review, the importance of the study of Psychology by the dental professional and to expose the techniques for coping with dental anxiety, based on scientific evidences.