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Volume 53, Issue 4, 2025
Online ISSN: 2560-3310
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Volume 53 , Issue 4, (2025)
Published: 30.06.2025.
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01.06.2015.
Professional paper
Pain and justification from dental intervention
Patient fear from dental intervention is the most common cause of permanent disposal of the visits to the dentist by the patient , and there arise some magic circle in which symptoms of disease becomes more intensive , which proportionally increase the already present fear and further delay the visits to the dentist . The ultimate outcome is compromised oral health with early loss of teeth and chewing function , speech , etc. The aim of work is to determine the frequency of fear from dental intervention , occurrence of pain during certain phases of tooth extraction , its intensity , and justified fear of the patient from the most common oral surgery . The study includes 96 patients , aged 16-45 years , of whom 55 were male and 41 were female . For the assessment of fear of dental intervention was used Korah modified anxiety scale consisted of four questions ,in which every question has an answer and they are scored on a five point Likert scale . To determine the prevalence of pain in various stages of extraction there was used interview about the pain made up of three questions , and the sample consisted of patients divided by Kore scale into high and very high anxiety person. People who have positively responded to the questionnaire, the pain was further determined with visual analogue scale. For statistical analysis we used hi square test at a significance of level p<0,05. Modified Kore scale in a group of very highly anxious individuals were classified as 8 (7.68%), highly anxious individuals 15 (14.4%), moderately anxious individuals 31 (29.76%)and in the group of people without anxiety 42 patients (40, 32%).From a total of 23 patients identified as high and very high anxiety , only three (14%) felt the pain during the observation and characterized as a mild by using visual analogue scale as mild. By using Hi-square test (p<0,05) there were significant differences in responses( x²=12,6>5,92) . Five patients (22,74%) felt the pain during anesthesia where was found statistically significant differences in responses (X ²=7.34> 5.91) . Two patients (8.7%) registered the pain during tooth extraction and all the pain was characterized as mild to moderate. There was no statistically significant difference using the Hi square in the responses (x²=15,69>5,91 za p<0,05). The frequency of dental anxiety in our sample was very high in comparison with similar studies in the west of Europe, and the possible cause among other things, can be considered as a lower level of education of the population on which we must work. The emergence of real pain in high and very high anxiety patients during tooth extraction is very small, which indicate the unjustified fear of this type of intervention .
F. Djordjevic, J. Stanisic, A. Djordjevic, Z. Vlahovic, R. Mladenovic
01.06.2015.
Professional paper
Awareness, habits and behaviors associated with the oral health of children in elementary schools on Kosovo and Metohia
Oral health is an integral part of the general health of humans and significantly affect the quality of life. Dental caries is today the most widespread disease of our civilization, which if untreated leads to tooth loss. It is significant to note that studies show the possibility of successful prevention of diseases of the oral cavity. Traditionally, there has always been lower economic and educational level of the population in rural areas, and also a lower availability of dental services. Possible reasons for this include the lack of pediatric dental offices in schools in rural areas, the greater the distance of the dentist, the lack of properly organized school dental care, lack of knowledge about the importance of oral health by their parents as role models and unfavorable socio-economic status. The aim of this study was to examine the level of awareness and habits of children and parents toward oral hygiene and bad habits in the Serbian enclaves in Kosovo and Metohija and to compare them with children who live in urban areas in Kosovska Mitrovica. The study included 160 elementary school students in the area of Kosovska Mitrovica (urban area) and the Serbian enclaves on Kosovo and Metohia (rural area) which included elementary school students from Sirinić District, the Kosovo Morava, the central Kosovo, villages of Suvo Grlo and Banja in municipality Istok. By examining the frequency of tooth brushing we found that 32 (40%) of children in enclaves brush their teeth once a day, 40 (50%) two times a day, and only 8 (5%) of them maintain hygiene teeth 3 times a day. Boys who wash their teeth three times a day were 12.5% and 37.5% of girls. The children from the enclave more often come to the dentist when they have an appointment (33:8), while children from Kosovska Mitrovica more often come to the quarterly control (21:4). An interesting fact is that 15.33% of children from urban areas cited as a source of oral health information from the Internet and Android application for mobile phone or tablet. The difficult security situation, limited freedom of movement, the poorly developed dental services, poor health education and promotion of oral health of the population of Serbian enclaves, the reason for the weaker informing children and parents about preventive dental measures. It is necessary to mobilize all sectors of society on joint actions aimed at the promotion of oral health.
R. Mladenovic, A. Cvetkovic, B. Martinovic, Z. Milojkovic, Z. Arsic, F. Djordjevic