The combination of listening to background music and deep breathing as a stress reduction strategy during dental preclinical study.

Objectives: According to our earlier study, background music can help foster dental preclinical manual dexterity training and learning and has the potential to increase student satisfaction and productivity. Deep diaphragmatic breathing helps produce a relaxed mental state and is considered a behavioral coping strategy to reduce anxiety. Experimental data on whether background music combined with deep belly breathing reduces the stress and anxiety of preclinical dental students during practice is lacking.

The use of dental anxiety management techniques during one-session treatment: a study on five video-recorded patient cases.

Objective: The aim was to examine what kinds of dental anxiety management techniques dentists use in the context of one-session treatment.

Material And Methods: The data consisted of videotaped treatment sessions for five dentally anxious adults. The treatment was conducted by two experienced dentists without formal training in the treatment of dentally anxious patients or behavioral management techniques.

Influence of background music on stress reduction and impact on performances during students' simulation exercises.

Background: The acquisition of manual skills is essential in preclinical dental training. Background music improves the learning of many manual skills, though we found no data on the consequences of background music on preclinical manual skills training of dental students.

Objective: The first aim of this project was to explore whether listening to slow background music could reduce the stress of students when learning how to perform cavity preparations and restorations in a simulation laboratory.

The effectiveness of a diagnostic interview and modified one-session treatment for dental anxiety in primary dental care-A pilot study.

Aims: To investigate the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral intervention that included either a diagnostic interview (DI) or a DI combined with modified one-session treatment (M-OST) for dental anxiety among adults in a primary care setting.

Methods And Results: Nineteen participants were assigned to either a DI before conventional dental treatment (group T1) or DI and M-OST (group T2). The severity of dental anxiety was measured with three self-reported measures before and after the intervention: the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS), the Index of Dental Anxiety and Fear (IDAF-4C), and the Visual Analogue Scale-Anxiety (VAS-A).