Anxiety Scales and their levels in Patients with Impacted Third Molars. Literature Review

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Francis Carolina Pacheco Sandoval
María Viviana Mora Astorga
Diego Andrés Gaibor Rivadeneira

Abstract

Introduction: anxiety is common in dental procedures, and particularly in oral surgery, being one of the most frequent difficulties for dental professionals. Objective: to expose the different anxiety scales and their levels present in patients undergoing impacted third molars surgical procedures through a literature review between the months of April 2014 and January 2021. Material and methods: a literature review of articles was carried out using the PubMed and Google Scholar databases, the words used in the PubMed search that responded to the PICO analysis were “extraction of impacted third molars” “Anxiety Levels” “Anxiety” “impacted third molars”, while the search terms in Google Scholar were the combination of “patients with anxiety” and “extraction of impacted third molars”. The search yielded 114 PubMed articles and 367 Google Scholar articles, of which 361 articles from Google Scholar and 97 articles from PubMed were excluded, leaving 23 articles which were fully read. Results: there are different scales used to measure dental anxiety of patients who undergo extractions of impacted third molars, which have shown good levels of confidence, validity and strong correlations with dental anxiety. Conclusions: the different scales that are used to measure anxiety levels in patients who undergo extractions of impacted third molars are: DAS, MDAS, STAI, SDAI and APAIS, whose levels range from not anxious to very anxious or dental phobia.

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Pacheco Sandoval, F. C., Mora Astorga, M. V., & Gaibor Rivadeneira, D. A. (2024). Anxiety Scales and their levels in Patients with Impacted Third Molars. Literature Review. Revista Odontológica Mexicana, 26(2). https://doi.org/10.22201/fo.1870199xp.2022.26.2.87330

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Author Biographies

Francis Carolina Pacheco Sandoval, Universidad de los Hemisferios

Quito, Ecuador.

María Viviana Mora Astorga, Universidad de los Hemisferios

Quito, Ecuador.

Diego Andrés Gaibor Rivadeneira, Universidad de los Hemisferios

Quito, Ecuador.

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