Talk:Dental fear
Discussion Group 2
PLANNING
1. Defining (dental fear/phobia and dental anxiety) (RABIA)
2. Prevalence of dental fear (RABIA)
3. What causes it (direct and indirect experiences)? (SHEKIEB)
4. The impact of dental phobia on daily life (AMIRA)
5. Diagnosis and assessing dental fear (IFEMIDE)
6. Strategies/techniques/treatment (both for adults and children) (RIYA)
7. See also (list of phobias, fear of medical procedures, etc) (ALL)
8. Related topics (ALL)
9. References (ALL)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 18961065RP (talk • contribs) 04:06, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
The impact of dental phobia on daily life
Research conducted in the United Kingdom states that dental phobia is high with about one third of the population being categorised as dentally anxious. Dental phobia creates a barrier between the individual receiving care and the practitioner as, it also places a level of stress on the operator. In return this has an impact on the patient’s level of attendance, treatment provided and the overall oral health of the patient as the individual is in a cycle of fear thus, avoids regular dental check-ups and treatment and only seeks help when in pain which in turn means invasive dental treatment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EGYPT1998 (talk • contribs) 09:38, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Ref
There's a real problem with the refs in this article. It looks like the ==External links== section has the actual refs. The article just has a number. If you want to make this work, please put the ref in the article itself. So instead of <ref>16</ref>, the bit in the paragraph says <ref>(Whatever the name of the article is)</ref>. It should be a simple cut-and-paste job, except that there are 15 named refs, and 16 slots to put them in, so every ref needs to be verified by hand. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:49, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Friend/partner removal
The sentence had been uncited since 2010 Feb, and it wasn't supported by the previous refs. While I totally agree that a dental phobic (dental feared? dentally feared? dental anxious?) person should bring someone who can restrain them from either running from the office or punching an aide or doctor, in this article the "advice" is completely uncited. 71.234.215.133 (talk) 05:21, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Advice for student editors
Please review the following guidelines for writing medical content on Wikipedia:
Thank you. Lesion (talk) 07:09, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
Old page history
Some old page history that used to be at the title "Dental phobia" can now be found at Talk:Dental phobia/Old history. Graham87 13:03, 4 December 2013 (UTC)