[Pain and fear: a pair apart].
The experience of pain is always affectively negative, and thus often evokes fear. Since the fearful response to pain is not completely determined by the intensity of the pain, dentists should, besides trying to minimize pain, try to minimize this fear. In this article several psychological techniques to achieve that goal are presented and discussed.
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Centrum voor Leerpsychologie en Gedragstherapie, Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, B-3000 Leuven, België.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D016854:Dental Anxiety / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D005239:Fear; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D059408:Pain Management; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000517:prevention & control
Pijn en vrees: een paar apart.