Methods Helping Dentists to Detect Dental Fear.

Objectives: Dental fear is common and yet often remains unrecognised. COVID-19 has challenged health care since 2020. This study aimed to evaluate patients' self-reported dental fear and detection of dental fear by the dentists.

Self-reported factors for improving patient's dental care: A pilot study.

Objectives: Patient-centered approach can offer valuable information in improving dental care, but literature is scarce. This study aimed to evaluate self-reported factors beneficial for attendance in dental care.

Material And Methods: Survey data were collected during the summer of 2020 comprising both structured questionnaires and an open question on factors considered beneficial for dental attendance.

10-year follow-up study on attendance pattern after dental treatment in primary oral health care clinic for fearful patients.

Background: Dental fear may lead to avoidance of regular dental treatment. The scope of this long-term practe-based study was to monitor the dental attendance of patients who received chair-side dental and fear treatment.

Methods: In 2000-2006, patients in the City of Oulu, Finland, received treatment for dental fear in the Clinic for Fearful Dental Patients (CFDP) from primary health care dentists trained on this subject.

Outcome of Chair-Side Dental Fear Treatment: Long-Term Follow-Up in Public Health Setting.

Aim: Purpose of this practice and data-based study was to evaluate the outcome of dental fear treatment of patients referred to the Clinic for Fearful Dental Patients (CFDP) in the primary oral health care, City of Oulu, Finland, during period 2000-2005.

Methods: A psychological approach including behavioral interventions and cognitive behavioral therapy (BT/CBT) was used for all participants combined with conscious sedation or dental general anesthesia (DGA), if needed. The outcome was considered successful if later dental visits were carried out without any notifications in the patient records of behavioral problems or sedation.

Self-reported causes for referral to dental treatment under general anaesthesia (DGA): a cross-sectional survey.

Aim: To determine causes leading to dental care under general anaesthesia (DGA) in public health care reported by the patients or the parents/caregivers.

Study Design: All the patients referred to DGA at the Municipal Health Centre, Oulu, Finland, during 10 months were invited to participate in the present cross-sectional survey. They were sent a questionnaire on indications for referral to DGA, dental fear, possible reasons for it as well as prior treatment of dental fear.

Timing of first fillings in the primary dentition and permanent first molars of asthmatic children.

The aim of this study was to analyze the timing of first fillings posteruptively in a cohort comprising 51 asthmatic children receiving inhaled corticosteroids and living in three communities in Ostrobothnia, Finland. They had all been born in the 1980s and had had asthma check-ups in the local asthma policlinic. A group of 102 healthy age- and sex-matched children served as controls.