Combating Anxiety in the Dental Office and Ways to Improve your Experience

Combating Anxiety in the Dental Office and Ways to Improve your Experience

Presenter(s)

Jamie Adam Dziurdzik, William Reilly Edwards

Comments

Presentation: 1:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m., Kennedy Union Ballroom

This project reflects research conducted as part of a course project designed to give students experience in the research process.

Course: MED 480

Description

Throughout the history of the United States, the importance and necessity of oral health has always been a top priority for our national healthcare system. Therefore, having recognition that regulating oral pathologies can help improve one’s overall health is essential for dentists to convey to patients during appointments. However, one crucial barrier dentists face when working with patients and communicating to them the importance of routine checkups and self-care is the issue of dental anxiety while in the office. We understand that dental anxiety can stem from a multitude of reasons including but not limited to personal trauma from a prior experience, office spaces that make individuals feel claustrophobic, monotone office paint colors, a hectic hygienist staff/environment, or mistrust between a patient and their dentist when operating in and around the mouth. Because dental-related anxiety is so common among patients, our research will include a wide range of potential dental patients asking them which factors may consciously contribute to their anxiety by answering an interactive survey. Participants will also be asked to select methods in which a dentist can help lower their personal anxiety. This information will ultimately be used in order for us to gather information on how to best help dentists with patient anxiety in the Dayton area.

Publication Date

4-20-2022

Project Designation

Course Project

Primary Advisor

Thomas E. Herchline

Primary Advisor's Department

Premedical Programs

Keywords

Stander Symposium project, College of Arts and Sciences

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Good Health and Well-Being

Combating Anxiety in the Dental Office and Ways to Improve your Experience

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