Fear of dental care: Are we making any progress?

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1101-1108

  Smith, Timothy A ^a   Heatom, Lisa J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; COLLEGE STUDENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DENTAL CARE; DENTISTRY; FEAR; HUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ADULT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; DENTAL ANXIETY; PERSONALITY TEST; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; DENTAL ANXIETY; HUMANS; MANIFEST ANXIETY SCALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0142093041     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2003.0326     Document Type: Article

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