Description
Dentine Hypersensitivity: Developing a Person-Centred Approach to Oral Health provides a detailed and integrated account of interdisciplinary research into dentine hypersensitivity. The monograph will be of interest to all those working on person centred oral health related research because it provides not only an account of the findings of a series of studies into dentine hypersensitivity drawing on the research traditions of epidemiology, sociology psychology, and dental public health but an integrated study of the benefits of exploring a single oral condition from this range of disciplines.- Provides an introduction to Dentine Hypersensitivity, and uses a multidisciplinary approach to detail interdisciplinary research on the subject- Outlines the clinical presentation of Dentine Hypersensitivity and the underlying physiological mechanisms- Presents a case study of how social and behavioral science can bright new insights into the experience, treatment, and fundamental knowledge of an important dental condition- Written by prominent dentists, psychologists, sociologists, and industry scientists working specifically on the topic of Dentine Hypersensitivity and its subsequent research
Table of Contents
Part One: Introduction and BackgroundChapter 1. Introduction to Dentine HypersensitivityChapter 2. Clinical Presentation and Physiological MechanismsChapter 3. The Burden of HypersensitivityChapter 4. The Management of Dentine HypersensitivityChapter 5. The Importance of Subjective Assessments of Dentine HypersensitivityPart Two: The Subjective Experience of Dentine HypersensitivityChapter 6. The Everyday Impact of Dentine Sensitivity: Personal and Functional AspectsChapter 7. Construction and Validation of the Quality of Life Measure for Dentine Hypersensitivity (DHEQ)Chapter 8. Ice-Cream Related Quality of Life: Constructing a questionnaire to capture: Changes in the impacts of Dentine HypersensitivityChapter 9. The Dentine Hypersensitivity Experience Questionnaire (DHEQ): A Longitudinal Validation Study Chapter 10: Derivation of a short form of the Dentine Hypersensitivity QuestionnaireChapter 11: Development of the Chinese version of the Dentine Hypersensitivity Experience QuestionnairePart Three: Psychology and the Measurement of Pain and ImpactChapter 12: Response shift and Oral Health Quality of Life in Dentine HypersensitivityChapter 13: Development of Labeled Magnitude Scales for the Assessment of Pain of Dentine HypersensitivityChapter 14: The Role of Illness Beliefs and coping in the adjustment to Dentine HypersensitivityPart Four: Dentine Hypersensitivity and the Construction of MeaningChapter 15: The Experience of Health and Illness: Polycontextural Meaning and Accounts of IllnessChapter 16: Differentiation and Displacement: Unpicking the Relationship between Accounts of Illness and Social StructureChapter 17. Consumer Advertising and the Meaning of Dentine HypersensitivityPart Five: Discussion and ConclusionChapter 18: ConclusionsAppendicesAppendix One DHEQ Long formAppendix Two DHEQ Short form
