… 22 The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationships between temperament
and dental fear and dental behavior-management problems (BMPs) in child patients. …

… In the dental environment, fear can be characterized as an emotional reaction to specific …
sound or the smell of a dental material, which is called dental fear (DF). Dental anxiety (DA) is a …

… In the review by Winer 1 , the possible relations between dental fear and general behavioural
and temperamental factors were not investigated, but since then these aspects have also …

… in dental fear among adolescences at 15-17 years of age, differences in levels of dental fear
according to temperament… of dental fear, and of types of traits, trait III showed lower levels of …

… According to our second aim, correlations (Pearson) were used to study the relations
between the temperamental factors, dental fear, general fear, and indices of general anxiety and …

… children's dental fear … children's fear score and children's behavior and collaboration during
treatment. In this study, there was no significant relationship between children's dentistry fear …

… In case of an unpleasant first memory, children will always fear receiving subsequent
dental care. Thus, the clinician should be adequately familiar with physical, psychological, …

… Precisely, our study, observing an Italian population, shows that the best predictor of child
dental anxiety is parents’ dental fear rather than relatively stable temperaments of the child. …

Beyond the biological risk factors of early childhood caries (ECC) is child temperament. This
study aimed to investigate the relationship of ECC to different traits of child temperament, …

Children‘s individual styles of interaction with the environment (temperament) influence stable
tendencies towards distress (trait anxiety) and context-specific manifestations of distress (…