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MeSH Heading: Dental Anxiety
Tree Number(s): F01.470.132.300
Unique ID: D016854
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016854
Scope Note: Abnormal fear or dread of visiting the dentist for preventive care or therapy and unwarranted anxiety over dental procedures.
Entry Version: DENT ANXIETY
Entry Term(s): Anxiety, Dental; Dental Fear; Dental Phobia; Dentophobia; Fear, Dental; Odontophobia; Phobia, Dental
NLM Classification #: WU 61
Previous Indexing: Anxiety (1966-1991); Dental Care (1977-1991); Fear (1966-1991)
Public MeSH Note: 92
History Note: 92
Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1991/05/02
Revision Date: 2022/05/23

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

virology (VI)

Concept UI: M000756167
Terms: Dental Phobia Preferred Term
Term UI T050469
Date04/25/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Dental Fear
Term UI T050466
Date02/20/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Fear, Dental
Term UI T050467
Date02/20/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Phobia, Dental
Term UI T050468
Date05/02/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Odontophobia
Term UI T050470
Date02/20/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Dentophobia
Term UI T001111806
Date09/20/2021
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2021)

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