Salivary cortisol, salivary alpha amylase, and the dental anxiety scale

Anesthesia Progress

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 46-53

  Sadi, Hana ^a   Finkelman, Matthew ^a   Rosenberg, Morton ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental anxiety; Dental Anxiety Scale; Salivary alpha amylase; Salivary cortisol; Stress

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMYLASE SALIVA ISOENZYME; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTAL ANXIETY; DENTAL SURGERY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL SURGERY; PAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; SALIVA; SECRETION RATE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL ANXIETY; DENTAL CAVITY PREPARATION; DENTIST-PATIENT RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PAIN; SALIVA; SALIVARY ALPHA-AMYLASES; SECRETORY RATE; SEX FACTORS; TOOTH EXTRACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883011481     PISSN: 00033006     EISSN: 18787177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2344/0003-3006-60.2.46     Document Type: Article

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