RESULTS Application of the Oral Health Impact Profile ( OHIP ) demonstrated that disease of pulpal origin affects quality of life with moderate severity , primarily through physical pain and psychological discomfort , and that RCT results in broad improvement of quality of life .
Satisfaction with RCT is extremely high , but cost is the primary reason for dissatisfaction .
Anxiety and fear affect RCT patients , profoundly influencing their behaviors , including treatment avoidance , and their pain experience .
Fear of pain is " fair " to " very much " prior to RCT .
Pain is widely feared , disliked , and remembered ; however , disease of pulpal origin generally produces moderate , but not severe pain .
RCT causes a dramatic decrease in pain prevalence and severity over the week following treatment .
Survival rates of teeth after RCT are very high ; complication rates are low .
Cost is a barrier to RCT , but initial costs , lifetime costs , cost effectiveness , cost utility , and cost benefit all compare extremely well to the alternatives involving replacement using implants or fixed prostheses .
INTRODUCTION Root canal treatment ( RCT ) success criteria inform us of the path to bony healing and of prognostic factors , but tell little about how the patient perceives , feels , or values RCT .
Patients choose , undergo , and pay for RCT , they live with the result , and inform their community .
The purpose of this narrative review was to appraise patient-centered outcomes of initial non-surgical RCT and nonsurgical retreatment , in adults .
Fear of blood, injury, and injections, and its relationship to dental anxiety and probability of avoiding dental treatment among 18-year-olds in Norway.
BACKGROUND More knowledge about the relationship between blood-injury-injection phobia ( BIIP ) and dental anxiety ( DA ) may give new clinical ly relevant information in the assessment and management of children with DA . OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to explore the relationships between BIIP and DA , and to explore to what extent the two subtypes of BIIP in combination with DA are related to self-reported probability of avoiding dental treatment if a dental injection is needed . METHODS The subjects were a r and om sample of 1385 18-year-olds attending high schools in a county of Norway , and the data were collected by use of question naires completed in classrooms . The survey instruments applied were  Dental Fear Survey , Injection Phobia Scale-Anxiety , and Mutilation Question naire . RESULTS About 11 % of the subjects with DA and subtypes of BIIP , respectively , reported high probability of avoiding dental treatment in a situation where a dental injection was possibly needed . In multiple regression analysis , only DA contributed to self-reports of high probability of avoiding dental treatment . CONCLUSION The results indicate that among adolescents , BIIP is relatively often connected with DA . Clinical implication s are discussed
RESULTS Application of the Oral Health Impact Profile ( OHIP ) demonstrated that disease of pulpal origin affects quality of life with moderate severity , primarily through physical pain and psychological discomfort , and that RCT results in broad improvement of quality of life .
Satisfaction with RCT is extremely high , but cost is the primary reason for dissatisfaction .
Anxiety and fear affect RCT patients , profoundly influencing their behaviors , including treatment avoidance , and their pain experience .
Fear of pain is " fair " to " very much " prior to RCT .
Pain is widely feared , disliked , and remembered ; however , disease of pulpal origin generally produces moderate , but not severe pain .
RCT causes a dramatic decrease in pain prevalence and severity over the week following treatment .
Survival rates of teeth after RCT are very high ; complication rates are low .
Cost is a barrier to RCT , but initial costs , lifetime costs , cost effectiveness , cost utility , and cost benefit all compare extremely well to the alternatives involving replacement using implants or fixed prostheses .
INTRODUCTION Root canal treatment ( RCT ) success criteria inform us of the path to bony healing and of prognostic factors , but tell little about how the patient perceives , feels , or values RCT .
Patients choose , undergo , and pay for RCT , they live with the result , and inform their community .
The purpose of this narrative review was to appraise patient-centered outcomes of initial non-surgical RCT and nonsurgical retreatment , in adults .