Current treatments and advances in pain and anxiety management

Dental Clinics of North America

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 609-618

  Huang, David ^a   Wun, Edmund ^a   Stern, Avichai ^a  

^a BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Pain and anxiety control; Pain and anxiety management; Pain and anxiety types; Physiology of pain and anxiety; Preoperative and postoperative mortality and morbidity

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

DENTAL ANXIETY; DENTAL PROCEDURE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; HUMAN; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; DENTAL ANXIETY; DENTAL CARE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; PAIN; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE;

EID: 79959891877     PISSN: 00118532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cden.2011.02.014     Document Type: Review

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