Journal of Dentomaxillofacial Science
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2017): (Available online: 1 April 2017)

Management pain and anxiety in endodontic treatment

Andi Sumidarti (Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Hasanuddin University Makassar, Indonesia)
Wahyuni S. Dwiandhany (Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Hasanuddin University Makassar, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Apr 2017

Abstract

Objective : Dental pain is a common symptom that most often causes patient to seek dentist. A survey conducted by the American Association of Endodontics revealed that more than half patients who come to dentist have experienced pain, which originate from the teeth or of the surrounding tissue, can causes difficulties in handling, also the anxiety of the patient. Understanding the pain experienced by patient will help dentist to determine when to make an action. Most patient being fear with pain, so they delay to get treatment from dentist, and lead to the development of further infection and inflammation. The aim of this paper is to improve the understanding of pharmacology and procedures for pain and anxiety management in endodontic treatment. So, it is important to determine accurate diagnosis, management and drug administration.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jdmfs

Publisher

Subject

Dentistry

Description

Journal of Dentomaxillofacial Science (J Dentomaxillofac Sci) is an international, peer-reviewed, and open access journal published in English language. Our journal aims to keep dentists informed of developments and advances in general dentistry and its different specialties in an easy-to-read ...