What is it about?
Dental pain is the most common reason for the patients to visit a dental office. The aims of this study were to evaluate the dental pain and anxiety levels in the patients prior to treatment, to evaluate the concordance among the different pain scales (VAS, VRS, Faces Pain Rating Scale, and numeric scale) and to assess the influence of oral health on the quality of life of those patients.
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Why is it important?
Some patients develop behaviour to avoid oral health care because of their anxiety related to dental health and treatment procedures.It is better to assess the patient's level of anxiety prior to dental treatment because it had an influence of pain perception which in turn had an impact on the quality of life of the patient.
Perspectives
Dental pain affects the life of the patients functionally, physically, psychologically, socially and handicap in worst cases. Anxiety increases pain perception. So it is better to assess the level of pain and anxiety as behaviour modification techniques and counselling can be done in order to reduce the impact.
Dr Shruthi Suresh
Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education and Research
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This page is a summary of: Gender based comparison of impact of dental pain on the quality of life among out patients of a private dental college in Tamil Nadu, Journal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry, January 2015, Medknow,
DOI: 10.4103/2319-5932.171205.
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