Dental anxiety

     Dental anxiety are common problem for many dentist in the world. because it was one of the factor that make the barrier between dentist and patient. dental anxiety usually come from childhood trauma. there are a lot of thing that makes trauma. for instance in Indonesia usually parent using dentist as a threat for their kid, they will tell their kid to do something if they didn't do it or listen to them they will take them to dentist. so, a lot of children always think that dentist are scary thing. the other problem is the dentist. a lot of dentist didn't really care about dental anxiety so they just force the kids to get the treatment and it makes their dental anxiety getting worse.
     Dental anxiety (DA) is a multi-system response to a believed threat or danger. It is an individual, subjective experience which varies among people. DA is a widespread phenomenon which ranks fifth among the most commonly feared situations for individuals. It can have a serious impact on daily life and is a significant barrier to seeking and receiving dental care. It has been estimated that the anxious patient requires approximately 20% more chair time than the non-anxious patient,which has an impact on cost. DA is seen in both children and adults, with child anxiety often manifesting as inappropriate or disruptive behavior. Unfortunately, many general dental practitioners are not willing to provide care for preschool children who display disruptive behavior, especially when more than simple treatment is required.In addition, the use of dental anxiety measures (DAMs) by dentists is lower than it could be.
     In order to consider any pediatric dental anxiety measurement as a gold standard measure, the scale should cover the following criteria: all types of reliability and validity a relatively bias-free method independent of procedural bias or patient/investigator response biases a versatile method that is applicable for both clinical and non-clinical use, which is practical in a variety of different dental settings a method that should yield numbers on an identifiable number scale (nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio) so that the appropriate statistical analyses can be conducted short in length to maximize response from the children and minimize time for administration include items which are most relevant to the child dental experience easily hold the attention of the child and be simple to score and interpret.
      For self reported measures, the scale must be: age-appropriate and cover the cognitive status of the child; demonstrate reliability in scoring and test-retest reliability; be valid with respect to correlating with other indices such as behavior during treatment, dentists’ ratings of cooperation and mothers’ expectations of behavior and be numerical in order to rank dental anxiety causing items objectively and reliably. Reliability is necessary but not sufficient for validity.
     DAMs for children of age ≥6 years old should also assess information related to underlying beliefs and anxiety, as negative thinking patterns play a crucial role in fear evocation that could make the person apprehensive and difficult to treat, and the degree of belief in negative cognition is associated with the severity of dental anxiety. This will help dentists to understand the specific fears of patients, which in turn might help the patients to control his/her anxiety. Most DAMs only provide an overall estimate of perceived discomfort without understanding the causes of this anxiety. Therefore the objective of this study was to review pediatric dental anxiety measures and assess the statistical
methods that are used for validation and their clinical implications.


courtesy: Evidence-based dentistry:
analysis of dental anxiety
scales for children
A. Al-Namankany,1 M. de Souza2 and P. Ashley3

orthodontic practice braces

hey guys,
today I'll tell you about my university life.
today i got skill's lab schedule. in Indonesia this mean time for us (dentistry student) to practice about how well our hand works. as you know most of dentistry "thing" are related to art right. so this is how we practice for orthodontic dentistry.
each person got some wire. so we have to bend it into different shape. I'll show you some picture about it. one picture one you can see that there's few pattern that we have to make. and the one that i already finished are pattern that we make from straight wire with tools called bird beak. what's we have to do is, first we need to straighten the wire that we got using the bird beak as the  wire holder, then we bend the wire to the opposite direction to make a straight line. but, it's pretty hard to do. so, i try to just make the straight line just in the beginning and the rest will follow as  we make the pattern. so until now just complete 2 pattern and i still have 3 other pattern. i will update the other as soon as i complete the task.thank you

picture 1. that thing called 3 fingers. it usually use for making circle

picture 2

picture 3

Charity day

hello guys,
it's been a while since my lat post. i know i promise to update my charity  when i got home. but, i'm too tired to do that and today is my chance to make my update.
so, let's begin the story.
last time i join charity to play with some children  from orphan near my university. there's lot of them so we divide by group. there are 6 group. which is contain 5 or 6 kids. we play a lot. we play like outbound so there's lot of post. every post have different game. but the most exciting thing is when we move from post to post we start to chasing the other team. because each team have their own powder with different color. so we try to make other team full of our color on their clothes. actually that's all. there's no other exciting activities beside that.
so that end my story.
i know it's too short. but, as you know I'm still beginner in this area so please accept my apologise.
and thank you for anyone who read this. i got 42 view. i know it's too little but 42 better than nothing. and at least i know there's someone who read my post.
Thank you
i will post about dentistry theory and material soon. wait for it.

social activity

hey guys welcome again.
this is my first post, except my introduction it doesn't count right?
so, i write this at 01.26 am.
yeah i can't sleep now. today i have a schedule that's to do some charity. today my organization will go to a recreational place and take dozen of orphan with us. as you know they didn't  have parent's so even when they say they are happy. but, they must be feeling empty inside right? don't you agree with me?
so today schedule is take them out and have a lot of fun that' maybe they never have a chance to do that.
that's all for now cause i didn't meet them yet. after my schedule done I'll tell you what happen there and what we do there. wait for it.
thank you.

introduction

hey guys welcome to my blog.
let me start with my introduction but before that let me apologize for my bad grammar and broken English.
hi I'm dentistry student from Indonesia. my university located in Jakarta, Indonesia. my university are one of the best dentistry faculty in Indonesia. actually, i already post this in Indonesia but because of the traffic come from abroad then i change it in English cause most of Indonesian can read English right? and maybe just a little foreigner can read Indonesian. that's why i choose to make this more universal. in this blog i will talk about my dentistry life in my university and i will post a lot of theory that dentistry student need for their task or just for reading only.
yup th's all my introduction for now and i will post again as soon as possible.
thank you for reading my post. see you
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