Category: Anxiety

Nazife Begüm Karan  1 Affiliations Affiliation 1 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Rize, Turkey. Electronic address: [email protected]. PMID: 31505191 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.112676 Abstract Objective: To investigate the effectiveness of lavender oil (Lavandula angustifolia Mill) inhalation on anxiety, mood, and vital signs (blood pressure, respiratory rate, heart rate, and saturation) of patients undergoing oral surgery. Vital signs were considered as primary outcome measures. Paired anxiety tests were used as secondary outcome measures. Methods: Patients who had dental anxiety according to the Dental Anxiety Questionnaire…

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J Lehrner  1 , G Marwinski, S Lehr, P Johren, L Deecke Affiliation 1 University Clinic of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. [email protected] PMID: 16095639 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2005.06.031 Abstract The goal of this study was to investigate the impact of the essential oils of orange and lavender on anxiety, mood, alertness and calmness in dental patients. Two hundred patients between the ages of 18 and 77 years (half women, half men) were assigned to one of four independent groups. While waiting for dental procedures patients were either stimulated with ambient odor of orange or…

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