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Mul Med 2019; 23 (2)

Association between odontophobia and dental health

Palomino RKL, Alcolea GAM, Alcolea GAC, Alcolea RJR

Language: Spanish
References: 14
Page: 220-230
PDF size: 177.27 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Introduction: the visit to the stomatologist is one of the health care that generates more anxiety in people; they can reach fear and phobia.
Objective: to determine the possible association between odontophobia and dental health in patients aged 20 to 50 years admitted to the Primary Care Service of the Stomatology Clinic of Bayamo in February 2017.
Method: transversal analytical observational epidemiological research was carried out, the universe of 132 patients; all of them were part of the study. The presence of odontophobia was identified with the support of the Norman Corah Anxiety Scale and a questionnaire where variables were studied: clinical status of affected teeth and tooth loss, then were determined by hundreds, means, statistical reliability test and Odds Ratio.
Results: predominantly odontophobic patients with teeth clinically affected by various causes (mean = 16.14), there was a statistical association between odontophobia and affected teeth (OR = 1.38), mainly at the expense of the patients with indications of extension (OR = 1.94). This situation contributed to a large extent to the high dental loss (53.57% - OR = 4.38).
Conclusions: the causal association between odontophobia and dental health was demonstrated, determined by the clinical state of the affected teeth and tooth loss.


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