Medo, ansiedade e dor de dente em pacientes atendidos em uma clínica-escola de Odontologia.

Abstract

Fear, anxiety and toothache in patients treated at a dental school clinic. Fear, anxiety, and toothache directly interfere with dental treatments. Objective: The objective was to evaluate the profile of the users, the prevalence and intensity of toothache, anxiety and fear, and their relationships with the sex and race of the patients of the School Clinic of Dentistry of the Federal University of Campina Grande - UFCG, for 3 months. Methodology: Data were collected through semi-structured and specific forms such as the Dental Fear Survey, Toothache according to Góes (2001) and Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) and analyzed by the SPSS® program. The Chisquare test was used to compare the variables. Results: 187 patients were interviewed, 71.1% female and 47.1% brown. The ages ranged from 18 to 75 years, with a mean age of 49.1 years, where the majority (33.7%) were between 18-28 years. The clinic with the highest prevalence of demand was surgery (21.9%) and the procedure was the restoration (19.3%). It was observed that 85% of patients already had toothache in their lives, 32.1% felt pain in the last 6 months. Most patients reported not feeling anxiety and fear. Tooth pain presented a statistically significant relationship with race (p <0.05), while anxiety with sex and race (p <0.05). Conclusion: There was a low prevalence of fear, anxiety and pain in the last 6 months, being higher in females. The white race had higher prevalence of anxiety and fear of anesthesia.