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Child dental fear and quality of life
Klaassen, M.A.
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2010
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Klaassen, M. A. (2010). Child dental fear and quality of life.
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Contents.
Chapter 1: General introduction 9
Part I. Child dental fear
Chapter 2: Stressful situations for toddlers: indications for dental anxiety? 23 Chapter 3: The clinical value of anxiety questionnaires: an explorative study. 31
Chapter 4: Changes in children’s dental fear: a longitudinal study. 43
Part II. The potential role of parents and the dentist
Chapter 5: Referring children to a Special Dental Care Centre in the Netherlands:
parents’ experiences and expectations. 59
Chapter 6: Dental fear, communication, and behavioural management problems in
children referred for dental problems. 67
Chapter 7: Parents’ dental learning history of (fearful) children. 83
Chapter 8: Child-parent interaction in different daily and dentistry-related situations,
an explorative analysis. 95
Part III. Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in children with dental fear
Chapter 9: Dental treatment under general anaesthesia: the short-term change in
young children’s oral-health-related quality of life. 107
Chapter 10: Young children’s Oral Health-Related Quality of Life and dental fear
after treatment under general anaesthesia; A randomized controlled trial. 123
Chapter 11: Summary and General Discussion 135
Samenvatting (Summary in Dutch) 150
Dankwoord (Acknowledgements in Dutch) 155
List of publications 157
