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Dental professionals find it difficult to identify patients with severe dental anxiety. At the same time, patients are reluctant to talk about their fears and hope that the staff will understand ...

Silver Diamine Fluoride (SDF) and Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) are gentler techniques that could help anxious ...

Hypnosis could play a significant role in at least three areas of dental care: managing acute pain during dental procedures, ...

This pattern of attendance and care can set up a vicious cycle leading to long lasting dental anxiety problems. To prevent anxiety, we must break this cycle by making the dental experience easier ...

Dental anxiety has wide ranging effects on the lives of individuals who are dentally phobic. The impact of dental anxiety is manifest in five ways: physiological disturbance; behavioural changes ...

A breakthrough dental floss device may soon let you measure stress hormones at home, with accuracy rivaling high-end lab ...

New details offer insight into the final moments of Silvanna Moreno, a 9-year-old girl who was put under anesthesia for a ...

Hey, Carolyn: My 10-year-old is exhibiting anxiety about changes to routines or scheduled activities recently. It seems fairly developmental, and kid and I talk through it when it crops up.

Patients with recurrent aphthous ulcers (RAUs) may experience anxiety and abnormal bowel movements, with the brain-gut axis potentially playing a role in the onset of these sores. The study was ...

The delta opioid receptor agonist KNT‐127 relieves innate anxiety‐like behavior in mice by suppressing transmission from the prelimbic cortex to basolateral amygdala. Neuropsychopharmacology ...