By
Ray Croucher, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Dental Public Health, Department of Dental Public Health, St. Bartholmew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London
Gerry Kent, PhD, DipClinPsychol, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Sheffield, UK
Description
Personal communication between dentist and patient is of primary importance in dental practice. Dentist-patient relationships can present
problems when patients are nervous or require particular forms of care and an awareness of the views and expectations of individual.
This book provides the means to understand, prevent and treat many of the difficulties encountered by dentists. It describes the principles
of psychology and sociology applied to dental practice, giving specific guidelines on the most effective way to deal with psychological
problems, such as anxiety and pain.
This new edition places more emphasis on the link between the sociological and psychological
aspects of care related to public health and health promotion concerns. Awareness of these issues continues to increase in line with
growing research output, and their importance is stressed in current General Dental Council Recommendations for the dental undergraduate
curriculum. The subsequent surge in interest and understanding of the issues involved in dental anxiety, preventive health care, dentist-patient
relationships and the care of specific patient groups means that an updated text covering these areas is extremely timely.
