Publications by authors named "D Moles"
Objective: To describe dentists' perceptions of their professional roles, including the reasons why they make, accept or decline patient referrals within primary dental care in England.
Basic Research Design: Qualitative semi-structured interviews, conducted via Skype, telephone or face-to-face. Transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis and typologies were developed.
Objectives: Although stress is prevalent amongst dentists, there is a paucity of data on the impact of stressors on dentists' clinical performance. To address this gap in the literature, the aim of the present study was to explore the role of time pressure, representing one common stressor, on dentists' radiographic diagnostic performance.
Methods: Forty dentists were randomised to examine and provide a radiographic report on two sets of radiographs (six bitewings in each set) under two conditions on a cross-over basis: time-pressure vs.
Dental anxiety is a prevalent problem with marked psychological, physical and public health implications. Based on cognitive theory and evidence, we hypothesized that vivid, sensory image-based cognitions play a role in dental anxiety. A quantitative online survey (N = 306) and qualitative semi-structured interviews (N = 18) found that vivid sensory images were common irrespective of dental anxiety levels, but that their content, associated distress and responses varied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pain during dental treatment, which is a common fear of patients, can be controlled successfully by local anaesthetic. Several different local anaesthetic formulations and techniques are available to dentists.
Objectives: Our primary objectives were to compare the success of anaesthesia, the speed of onset and duration of anaesthesia, and systemic and local adverse effects amongst different local anaesthetic formulations for dental anaesthesia.