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Dental anxiety in patients with borderline intellectual functioning and patients with intellectual disabilities

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Fallea, Antonio, Zuccarello, Rosa, Calì, Francesco·2016·BMC Oral Health
DOI 10.1186/s12903-016-0312-yPMC PMC5093997
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BACKGROUND: This study was aimed to investigate the prevalence of dental anxiety in a population of patients with Borderline Intellectual Functioning (BIF) and patients with mild and moderate intellectual disability (ID), and how dental anxiety correlated with their age and gender. METHODS: The sample was made of 700 patients, 287 females and 413 males, 6-to-47 years old, either with borderline intellectual functioning or mild/moderate intellectual disabilities. All patients were administered the Dental Anxiety Scale to assess their level of dental anxiety. RESULTS: Moderate Anxiety was the most prevalent dental anxiety category for patients with intellectual borderline functioning (15.56 %) and mild intellectual disabilities(18.79 %), while Severe Anxiety was the most prevalent category for patients with moderate intellectual disabilities(21 %). Overall, a statistically significant difference (p < 0.001) between the three groups (BIF, Mild-ID and Moderate-ID) was found. Also, the correlation analysis between participants' age and dental anxiety was statistically significant (p < 0.001); indeed, dental anxiety turned out to decrease with the increasing of the age. Moreover, the analysis between gender and dental anxiety was found to be significant as well (p < 0.001), where higher prevalence of dental anxiety was found in females. CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge, this is the first study on dental anxiety carried out in the field of intellectual disability. Results show that the higher the level of intellectual disability - and consequently the lower the cognitive functioning - the higher the percentage and the severity of dental anxiety.

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  • Dental anxiety is common in the general population and may be more prevalent in people with learning disabilities.

    “Dental anxiety is a common phenomenon in the general population and may be more prevalent in people with learning disabilities.”

    From Implementation of a CBT-based dental anxiety management pathway for patients with learning disabilities (2024) · cites this paper as [11]

    The Background describes dental anxiety as longstanding and widely studied in the general population. The Discussion reports that dental anxiety increased with the level of intellectual disability, but says the study's data were not comparable with those of other authors. It therefore does not establish that dental anxiety is more prevalent in people with intellectual disabilities than in the general population. Page numbers are not supplied in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  • People with learning disabilities are more likely to have poor periodontal health, higher caries rates, edentulism, higher rates of unmet oral health needs and dental anxiety.

    “In terms of dental health, people with learning disabilities are more likely to have poor periodontal health, higher caries rates, edentulism, higher rates of unmet oral health needs and dental anxiety.”

    From Implementation of a CBT-based dental anxiety management pathway for patients with learning disabilities (2024) · cites this paper as [11]

    The Discussion (page unavailable) reports that dental anxiety increases with the level of intellectual disability. The paper does not establish that people with learning disabilities have more dental anxiety than people without them, and the passages found do not address periodontal health, caries, edentulism or unmet oral health needs. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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Authors
Fallea, A., Zuccarello, R., & Calì, F.
Affiliations
Oasi Maria SS (IT)
Corresponding author
Fallea, Antonio
ORCID
Venue
BMC Oral Health
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2016-11-03
Volume
16
Issue
1
Pages
114-114
ISSN
1472-6831 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1186/s12903-016-0312-y
PMC
PMC5093997
OpenAlex
W2548405630
Cited by
37
References
30
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 4 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1
FWCI
2.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • BMC Oral Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Ministero della Salute
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Dentistry › Oral Surgery › Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques
  • Health Sciences › Dentistry › General Dentistry › Dental Health and Care Utilization
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Down syndrome and intellectual disability research
Keywords
dental anxiety, borderline intellectual functioning, intellectual disability, prevalence of dental anxiety, age differences, gender differences, cognitive function, Dental Anxiety Scale
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Child, Female, Humans, Learning Disabilities, Male, Intellectual Disability, Middle Aged, Prevalence, Dental Anxiety, Young Adult

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