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Dental anxiety: causes, complications and management approaches

@inproceedings{Hmud2007DentalAC,
  title={Dental anxiety: causes, complications and management approaches},
  author={Raghad Hmud and Laurence James Walsh},
  year={2007}
}
Fear of pain has been linked strongly to the development of dental anxiety and to avoidance of dental treatment. Studies indicate that memory of dental pain is “reconstructed” over time. He found that highly anxious patients tended to overestimate the pain they would feel prior to dental procedures, and also overestimate the pain experienced, when asked to recall it later. This pattern of findings has also been seen in other studies. In a study which examined 40 dental patients who twice… 
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