Children’s Dental Fear: Occurrence Mechanism and Prevention Guidance

Abstract

Jiaxun Ying,1 Hanbo Tao,1 Qingyuan He,1 Zhiruo Zhang,1 Wenfei Hu,1 Shuting Chen,2 Ye Guan1 1Savaid Stomatology School, Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Basic Medicine and Forensic Medicine, Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Ye Guan, Savaid Stomatology School, Lin’an Campus, Hangzhou Medical College, No. 8, Yikang Street, Lin’an District, Hangzhou, 310000, People’s Republic of China, Tel [phone], Email [email protected] Shuting Chen, School of Basic Medicine and Forensic Medicine, Lin’an Campus, Hangzhou Medical College, No. 8, Yikang Street, Lin’an District, Hangzhou, 310000, People’s Republic of China, Tel [phone], Email [email protected]: Children’s dental fear (CDF) has become one of the main reasons affecting the quality of dental treatment. In order to reduce the incidence of CDF in China before and after children’s dental visits, this review applies literature analysis and empirical summary methods to analyze and summarize academic discussions on this topic, including occurrence mechanism, prevention guidance, and the conclusion that the occurrence and prevention of CDF is closely related with children’s internal characteristics and external influences. In the end, we propose a breakthrough of combining the CFSS-DS scale and three-grade prevention theory together in the future to provide new ideas and hypotheses for the prevention of CDF.Keywords: dental anxiety, character, environment, family, hospital, three-grade prevention

Keywords

• dental anxiety
• character
• environment
• family
• hospital
• three-grade prevention