作者
Lucía Lago-Méndez, Márcio Diniz-Freitas, Carmen Senra-Rivera, Gloria Seoane-Pesqueira, José Manuel Gándara-Rey, Abel García-García
发表日期
2009/12/1
期刊
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontology
卷号
108
期号
6
页码范围
855-860
出版商
Mosby
简介
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to evaluate trait and dental anxiety influence on postoperative recovery after lower third molar surgery and to determine the effect of anxiety on surgery duration.
STUDY DESIGN
A prospective study was performed of 145 patients who underwent lower third molar extractions. Dental anxiety was evaluated using the Corah Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS), Kleinknecht Dental Fear Survey (DFS), and the state anxiety scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Trait anxiety was measured with the trait anxiety scale of the STAI. Surgery duration, postoperative pain, swelling, and trismus were also recorded.
RESULTS
Patients with high trait anxiety showed more pain according to all of the postoperative measures and to a significant degree in the last 2 postoperative days evaluated. Patients with high dental anxiety had greater trismus according to the DAS and to the dental stimuli …
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