title: A psychodynamic understanding of the dentist-patient interaction.
abstract: This paper describes various elements of the dentist-patient relationship, how they interact and illustrates them with case studies.
authors.affiliation: Dental Public Health Research Group, School of Clinical Dentistry, Queen's University of Belfast.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Freeman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016854:Dental Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D014167:Transference, Psychology