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Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques

Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques is a research topic within Oral Surgery. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the prevalence, psychological factors, and management strategies related to dental anxiety in children, adolescents, and adults. It also delves into the pharmacological considerations and efficacy of local anesthetics, as well as the impact of anxiety on pain perception and quality of life in dental patients.

  • Dental Anxiety
  • Local Anesthetics
  • Pharmacological Considerations
  • Fear Management
  • Psychological Factors
  • Articaine Efficacy
  • Behavioral Interventions
  • Pain Perception
  • Quality of Life
  • Patient Management
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (851 and 557 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 851 works
  2. 2 United States 557 works
  3. 3 Brazil 510 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 373 works
  5. 5 China 290 works
  6. 6 Iran 212 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 207 works
  8. 8 Saudi Arabia 189 works
  9. 9 Egypt 151 works
  10. 10 Pakistan 130 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

India: 24.5%United States: 16.1%Brazil: 14.7%Türkiye: 10.8%6 others listed: 33.9%25%largest
India851 · 24.5%United States557 · 16.1%Brazil510 · 14.7%Türkiye373 · 10.8%6 others listed1,177 · 33.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Saveetha University publishes the most Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques research, followed by Kamineni Institute of Dental Sciences and Universidade de São Paulo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Saveetha UniversityIndia 55 works
  2. 2 Kamineni Institute of Dental SciencesIndia 32 works
  3. 3 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 31 works
  4. 4 Cairo UniversityEgypt 28 works
  5. 5 Government Dental College and HospitalIndia 28 works
  6. 6 Sichuan UniversityChina 26 works
  7. 7 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 22 works
  8. 8 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 21 works
  9. 9 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 20 works
  10. 10 King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques include George Davey Smith, Gordon Henry Guyatt and Peter Christian Gøtzsche.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  3. 3 Peter Christian Gøtzsche Denmark 292k citations
  4. 4 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  5. 5 Luca Ronfani Italy 204k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques?

The most cited paper in Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques is "The Faces Pain Scale – Revised: toward a common metric in pediatric pain measurement" (Carrie L. Hicks, Carl L. von Baeyer, Pamela A. Spafford et al., 2001), with 2,085 citations. Next come "Development of a Dental Anxiety Scale" (1,310) and "The antibacterial effect of camphorated paramonochlorophenol, camphorated phenol and calcium hydroxide in the treatment of infected root canals" (1,010).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Faces Pain Scale – Revised: toward a common metric in pediatric pain measurement Carrie L. Hicks, Carl L. von Baeyer, Pamela A. Spafford et al. · Pain Aug 2001 2,085
2 Development of a Dental Anxiety Scale Norman L. Corah · Journal of Dental Research Jul 1969 1,310
3 The antibacterial effect of camphorated paramonochlorophenol, camphorated phenol and calcium hydroxide in the treatment of infected root canals Andeŕs S. Byström, Rolf Claesson, GÖRAN K. SUNDQVIST · Dental Traumatology Oct 1985 1,010
4 The bleaching of teeth: A review of the literature Andrew Joiner · Journal of Dentistry 30 Mar 2006 977
5 Mechanisms of antimicrobial activity of calcium hydroxide: a critical review José Freitas Siqueira Jr, Hélio Pereira Lopes · International Endodontic Journal Sep 1999 973
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Where is Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques research in 2022-now are Chennai (India), São Paulo (Brazil), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nalgonda and Vadodara.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ChennaiIndia 126 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 96 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 84 works
  4. 4 TehranIran 67 works
  5. 5 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 64 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 60 works
  7. 7 AnkaraTürkiye 49 works
  8. 8 CairoEgypt 48 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 48 works
  10. 10 BengaluruIndia 42 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NalgondaIN · 32.3 works108×
  2. VadodaraIN · 23.1 works23×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Hong Kong, Damascus University and King Abdulaziz University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 20.36%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Hong K…Damascus UniversitySichuan UniversityKing Abdulaziz Unive…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Hong KongChina 70.135.9%3.5×15 +1.9%
2Damascus UniversitySyria 65.524.4%48.8×18 +261.8%
3King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 64.218.2%8.0×20 +44.0%
4Sichuan UniversityChina 61.620.1%2.4×26 +147.5%
5King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 59.618.3%4.4×20 +31.3%
6Saveetha UniversityIndia 56.68.6%12.4×55 -11.8%
7Umm al-Qura UniversitySaudi Arabia 55.121.0%7.5×9 +354.2%
8Qassim UniversitySaudi Arabia 52.514.7%10.2×12 +153.8%
9Alexandria UniversityEgypt 52.015.2%7.8×17 +46.0%
10The University of QueenslandAustralia 51.027.2%2.0×9 +14.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques, country by country

Is Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques0.023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques10.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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