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A qualitative study of patients' views of techniques to reduce dental anxiety

Min-Ching Wang1, Karen Vinall-Collier2, Julia Csikar2

  • 1Department of Stomatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Dentistry, School of Dentistry, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; School of Dentistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Journal of Dentistry
|September 3, 2017
PubMed
Abstract

Keywords:
Dental anxietyDental fearPreparednessQualitative researchSense of controlShared decision making

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