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 .
Randomised controlled trial of music on state anxiety and physiological indices in patients undergoing root canal treatment.
OBJECTIVES The purpose of this r and omised investigator-blind controlled trial is to examine the effects of music on the state anxiety and physiological indices among patients undergoing root canal treatment . DESIGN R and omised controlled trial . METHODS Purposive sampling was used to recruit 44 adult subjects . The subjects were r and omly assigned to the treatment and the control group . There were 22 subjects in each group . Subjects in the music group listened to selected sedative music using headphones throughout the root canal treatment procedure . The control group subjects worn headphones but without the music . Using a repeated measures design with a single pretest and five posttests , the subjects ' heart rate , blood pressure and finger temperature were measured before the study and every 10 minutes until the end of the root canal treatment procedure . Anxiety was measured before the study and at the end of the treatment procedure . RESULTS The results revealed that there were no significant differences between the two groups for baseline data and procedure-related characteristics , except for gender . However , the subjects in the music group showed a significant increase in finger temperature and a decrease in anxiety score over time compared with the control group . The effect size for state anxiety and finger temperature was 0.34 and 0.14 respectively . RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE The findings provide evidence for nurses and dentists that the use of soothing music for anxiety reduction in patients undergoing root canal treatment procedures is supported by research findings
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 .