title: Stress in dental specialists: a comparison of six clinical dental specialties.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe and compare the levels of stress reported by dental practitioners working within clinical dental specialties.
  
  
  METHODS
  Questionnaire survey of 220 dental practitioners identified from the General Dental Council lists of specialist practitioners in the following clinical specialties: orthodontics, paediatric dentistry, restorative dentistry, endodontics, periodontology, prosthetic dentistry.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The clinical specialties did not differ in their reported levels of stress. Practitioners working in the field of paediatric dentistry reported the highest median levels of reported stress for three of the four scales, though this trend was not significant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The practitioners surveyed from six clinical specialties did not experience significantly different sources of stress.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dental Public Health & Oral Health Services Research, GKT Dental Institute, Floor 18, Guy's Tower, Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT. tim.newton@kcl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Jonathon T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Newton
authors.forename: Kamini
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mistry
authors.forename: Akit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Priya
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Perkins
authors.forename: Kashif
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saeed
authors.forename: Christoper
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003815:Dentists / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases; D013039:Specialties, Dental; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires