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Background: Pain and anxiety are common symptom in dental practice, and they involved in the alteration of the hemodynamic responses. Aim: This study aimed to demonstrate the role of a patient's experience with pain in the hemodynamic responses that observed in the practice of tooth extraction. Materials and Methods: This observational cohort study was carried in the Clinics of Dentistry at the Department of Dentistry in the Al-Rafidain University College in Baghdad-Iraq through 2019. A total number of 70 patients (48 males and 22 females) aged 15-66 years were included in this study. The authors assessed the severity of the pain by using visual analogue scale (VAS), the anxiety by using Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale-Revised and the hemodynamic responses, including heart rate, blood pressure, arterial stiffness, and myocardial work stress before and after teeth extraction. Results: females expressed pain, anxiety and changes in the hemodynamic responses more than males. The VAS score is significantly and inversely correlated with age (r= -0.314, p=0.008). Anxiety is significantly correlated with heart rate (r=0.244, p=0.042) and myocardial work stress (r=0.232, p=0.05). The VAS score was significantly less in patients who previously experienced pain due to the concomitant illnesses while the mean ±SD of the hemodynamic responses were significantly higher than the corresponding values of patients without pain experience. Conclusion: there are many factors influencing the level of anxiety and pain, and patients with previous history of pain due to other diseases are at risk of activation of hemodynamic responses.
Hemodynamic responses;, Pain experience, Tooth extraction;, Pain,, Anxiety;
Hemodynamic responses;, Pain experience, Tooth extraction;, Pain,, Anxiety;
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