BACKGROUND: The authors compared the levels of anticipated and experienced @entity158 of @entity1 who received endodontic therapy, or ET, with selected @entity1 and dental characteristics. METHODS: Sensory and affective @entity158 ( @entity158 and unpleasantness) were evaluated by 333 adult @entity1 immediately before and after dental school faculty or residents performed ET. Dentists provided clinical evaluations and a pulpal diagnosis for each tooth and then rated the level of their @entity1 ' @entity158 during treatment. RESULTS: Before ET, 43 percent of all patients anticipated high outcome levels, yet only 22 percent experienced high @entity158 levels, and only 18 percent experienced high unpleasantness levels. Outcome levels did not differ by tooth type, pulpal diagnosis, ET history or dental care attendance. @entity1 were significantly more likely to anticipate @entity158 and unpleasantness levels than were @entity1 . Experienced outcome levels, however, did not differ by sex. Anticipated and experienced outcome levels significantly decreased with increasing age. Dentists' evaluation of their @entity1 ' @entity158 levels correlated more highly for female than for male @entity1 . CONCLUSIONS: @entity158 experienced during ET often is less than anticipated. Younger people anticipate and experience @entity158 levels. @entity1 are more likely than men to anticipate, but not necessarily experience, @entity158 levels. Dentists are more closely attuned to the @entity158 experiences of their female @entity1 . Clinical Implications. Practitioners could better prepare younger @entity1 and female @entity1 for ET and improve @entity158 communication with male @entity1 . Findings suggest that @entity1 perceive each ET experience as new, implying that dentists should manage @entity1 who have had ET in the past as carefully as those receiving ET for the first time.

Anticipated and experienced XXXX associated with endodontic therapy.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'Women', 'patient', 'men'] @entity158 :: ('MESH:D010146', 'Disease') :: ['higher pain', 'Pain', 'pain', 'pain outcome measures']
@entity158 :: (MESH:D010146,Disease) :: ['pain']
