2023 AADOCR/CADR Annual Meeting
The 2023 AADOCR/CADR Annual Meeting & Exhibition provided dental, oral, and craniofacial health scientists with the opportunity to present, discuss, and critique their latest and most cutting-edge research at a 100% in-person gathering in Portland, Oregon. The meeting was attended by 2,054 individuals from 39 countries.The recordings in this library from the meeting are a selection of the science that was presented at the Annual Meeting. These recordings give you the opportunity to participate in the meeting and hear from leading researchers. The recordings include IADR Distinguished Lecture Series speakers and symposia from a collection of scientific groups and networks.
This session can be purchased as part of the full meeting recordings within the product bundles
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Session Description
Dental care-related fear and anxiety is commonly associated with dental treatment avoidance, poor oral health, and low oral health-related quality of life, among other deleterious outcomes. The true prevalence of dental care-related fear and anxiety has not been consistently measured, but global estimates of clinically significant levels of this fear/anxiety are around 15 percent. Though studied for many decades, the understanding of fear and anxiety related to the dental care experience and dental treatment utilization has been hindered in part by overly general and imprecise terminology and conceptualizations. This symposium will focus on contemporary issues relevant to the conceptualization of dental care-related fear and anxiety and its measurement across the lifespan. The first presentation will address historical and emerging perspectives on phenomenology and terminology from both dentistry and other health disciplines. Distinctions between stress, fear, anxiety, and panic will be described, and the relevance of these distinctions to fully understanding and intervening on these states in the context of dentistry will be discussed. Drawing on these conceptual issues, the second presentation will address the assessment of dental care-related fear and anxiety in children and adolescents, describing extant literature and critical future directions for improving science and practice. Then, the third presentation will address assessment of dental care-related fear and anxiety in adults and older adults, reviewing existing literature and calling out necessary next steps for the field. The symposium will close with a discussion and question-and-answer session facilitated by the presenters.
Learning Objectives
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Presenters
Behavioral, Epidemiologic, and Health Services Research, Pediatric Oral Health Research, Oral Health Research, Geriatric Oral Research, Evidence-based Dentistry Network, Clinical and Translational Science Network
CE Credits
1.5 Hours
Financial Interest Disclosure:
NONE
Dental care-related fear and anxiety is commonly associated with dental treatment avoidance, poor oral health, and low oral health-related quality of life, among other deleterious outcomes. The true prevalence of dental care-related fear and anxiety has not been consistently measured, but global estimates of clinically significant levels of this fear/anxiety are around 15 percent. Though studied for many decades, the understanding of fear and anxiety related to the dental care experience and dental treatment utilization has been hindered in part by overly general and imprecise terminology and conceptualizations. This symposium will focus on contemporary issues relevant to the conceptualization of dental care-related fear and anxiety and its measurement across the lifespan. The first presentation will address historical and emerging perspectives on phenomenology and terminology from both dentistry and other health disciplines. Distinctions between stress, fear, anxiety, and panic will be described, and the relevance of these distinctions to fully understanding and intervening on these states in the context of dentistry will be discussed. Drawing on these conceptual issues, the second presentation will address the assessment of dental care-related fear and anxiety in children and adolescents, describing extant literature and critical future directions for improving science and practice. Then, the third presentation will address assessment of dental care-related fear and anxiety in adults and older adults, reviewing existing literature and calling out necessary next steps for the field. The symposium will close with a discussion and question-and-answer session facilitated by the presenters.
Learning Objectives
- Understand historical and emerging perspectives on conceptualizations of dental care-related fear and anxiety, including those related to construct terminology and disambiguation necessary for advancing future etiological, epidemiological, and intervention research.
- Describe the state of the current literature on assessment of dental care-related fear and anxiety in children and adolescents, and identify key gaps and necessary targets for future research.
- Describe the state of the current literature on assessment of dental care-related fear and anxiety in adults and older adults, and identify key gaps and necessary targets for future research.
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Presenters
- Daniel W. McNeil - Conceptualizing Dental Anxiety: Historical Underpinnings, Contemporary Perspectives, and Current Gaps
- Cameron L Randall - Assessment of Child and Adolescent Dental Anxiety: State of the Field and Future Directions
- Brenda Heaton - Assessment of Adult and Older Adult Dental Anxiety: State of the Field and Future Directions
Behavioral, Epidemiologic, and Health Services Research, Pediatric Oral Health Research, Oral Health Research, Geriatric Oral Research, Evidence-based Dentistry Network, Clinical and Translational Science Network
CE Credits
1.5 Hours
NONE
