Dentine Hypersensitivity : Developing a Person-Centred Approach to Oral Health [ISBN : 9780128016312] [Copyright Year : 2015]

**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 Content: Front-matter, Pages i,iii Copyright, Page iv Dedication, Page v List of Contributors, Pages xv-xvi 1 - Introduction, Pages 3-20 2 - Clinical presentation and physiological mechanisms of dentine hypersensitivity, Pages 21-32 3 - The burden of dentine hypersensitivity, Pages 33-44 4 - The management of dentine hypersensitivity, Pages 45-76 5 - The importance of subjective assessments of dentine hypersensitivity, Pages 77-86 6 - The everyday impact of dentine sensitivity: Personal and functional aspects, Pages 89-107 7 - Construction and validation of the quality of life measure for dentine hypersensitivity (DHEQ), Pages 109-124 8 - Ice cream-related quality of life: Constructing a questionnaire to capture changes in the impacts of dentine hypersensitivity, Pages 125-139 9 - The dentine hypersensitivity experience questionnaire (DHEQ): A longitudinal validation study, Pages 141-154 10 - Derivation of a short form of the dentine hypersensitivity questionnaire, Pages 155-164 11 - Development of the chinese version of the dentine hypersensitivity experience questionnaire, Pages 165-175 12 - Response shift and oral health quality of life in dentine hypersensitivity, Pages 179-193 13 - Development of condition-specific scales for reporting the pain of dentine hypersensitivity, Pages 195-202 14 - The role of illness beliefs and coping in the adjustment to dentine hypersensitivity, Pages 203-221 15 - The experience of health and illness: Polycontextural meaning and accounts of illness, Pages 225-252 16 - Differentiation and displacement: Unpicking the relationship between accounts of illness and social structure, Pages 253-273 17 - Consumer advertising and the meaning of dentine hypersensitivity, Pages 275-292 18 - Conclusions, Pages 295-305 Appendix 1 - The dentine hypersensitivity experience questionnaire, Pages 307-315 Appendix 2 - The 15-item dentine hypersensitivity experience questionnaire (DHEQ-15), Page 317

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