Emotional Anxiety in Adolescents - A Special Role in Dentistry

Abstract

Anxiety and fear are part of the normal development of a child, and, as a rule, the development of fear and anxiety are transient. Panic fear of dentists is a disease called dentophobia, odontophobia or stomatophobia. A person suffering from such a disease simply cannot cross the threshold of a dental office, even when the toothache becomes completely unbearable. It is important here to distinguish the usual anxiety before a visit to the doctor from a panic state. If anxiety gives way before the arguments of reason, then, of course, there is no disease.If at the very thought of dental treatment, blood pressure jumps to unknown heights, a rapid heartbeat begins, and you cannot follow even the simplest instructions of a doctor, then you have dentophobia.Alas, you can't hide from dental problems. Caries and tooth loss are fraught with gastrointestinal diseases, migraines, even scoliosis. In addition, prevention is not only much less painful, but also cheaper than serious treatment. So, what should dentophobes do?