Talk:Dental fear

Gather all the information on this page under your allocated headings. Once approved by all the members, transfer it on to the "ARTICLE" page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.144.113.158 (talk) 00:36, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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 fear on daily life. Are we talking about children, or adults? (AMIRA)
5. Diagnosis and assessing dental fear (IFEMIDE)
6. Strategies/techniques/treatment in managing dental fear (RIYA)
7. Related topics (ALL)
8. References (ALL)
9. External links
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 18961065RP (talk • contribs) 04:06, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The content on the "article" page is good, so we will just follow that outline. One thing is added: "the impact of dental fear on daily life"

Definition

Can you please find articles that says fear and anxiety are inter-related because there are more evidences available on treatments for dental anxiety.

Do we need to find that they are inter-related because that means I have more to say in my paragraphs. However if it is limited to dental fear only there seems to be not many research conducted on it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:4F5D:BA00:799B:4159:6054:2106 (talk) 00:43, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Prevalence

Causes

The impact of dental fear on daily life

The fear of dentistry is not unusual to detect amongst patients, this dental fear in return creates a barrier for seeking oral health care thus affecting the individuals emotional well-being and overall quality of life. The avoidance of treatment results in severe general health complications such as; "septicemia skin problems, joint and heart problems, facial osteo-myelitis and many more". This can negatively affect the individuals functional well-being emotional well-being, social interaction and sense of self care. Therefore, research conducted has revealed that individuals suffering from dental fear; more often are subjected to poorer quality of life in comparison to other individuals who are not dentally afraid. Dental fear creates long term avoidance of care, thus results in deteriorated dentition. Therefore, individuals have difficulties interacting with different people, as they may be embarrassed due to poor aesthetics which makes smiling difficult and social interactions awkward. Therefore, this creates isolation and withdrawal impacting the emotional health.

Amira, you may have to change this information as it talks about dental phobia and not fear (they are two different things).

I will make some changes, I had just thought based on what Rabia had stated that they were interrelated :)

 — Preceding unsigned comment added by EGYPT1998 (talk • contribs) 10:54, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  — Preceding unsigned comment added by EGYPT1998 (talk • contribs) 09:38, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Diagnosis

Treatment

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)[reply]

External links

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)[reply]

Advice for student editors

Please review the following guidelines for writing medical content on Wikipedia:

WP:MEDMOS - gives recommended sections etc.
WP:MEDRS - gives guidance about suitable sources.

Thank you. Lesion (talk) 07:09, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Moved to Talk:Dental fear/Old history.--Srleffler (talk) 19:27, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]