Dental anxiety: a cause for possible misdiagnosis of tooth vitality.
Fear, anxiety and anticipation of pain are prepotent emotional and cognitive mediators of pain behaviour. As pain is often used as a parameter for evaluation of tooth vitality, existing dental anxiety may occasionally lead to possible misdiagnosis. A representative case is presented in which dental anxiety led to an initial misdiagnosis of endodontic pathology.
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The Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
D000293:Adolescent; D016854:Dental Anxiety / Q000150:complications*; D003788:Dental Pulp Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003791:Dental Pulp Test; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014098:Toothache / Q000523:psychology*