Stoma Edu J. 2024;11(1-2):
pISSN 2360-2406; eISSN 2502-0285
www.stomaeduj.com
In 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a resolution to provide better oral care,
to make oral care accessible to all, to establish a key indicator of overall health, well-being and
quality of life. WHO recommends a shift from the traditional curative approach to a preventive
approach that includes promoting oral health in the family, schools and workplaces as well as
timely, comprehensive and inclusive care in the primary health care system.
Oral Health Psychology is a book which denes oral health psychology as a collection of scientic,
pedagogical and professional contributions from psychology to promoting and maintaining oral
health, while placing oral health as an integral part of general health and well-being.
The book has 22 chapters divided in ve parts.The rst part, Basic Oral Health Psychology, ap-
proaches the link between basic oral health related to psychology, the importance of trauma,
pain, the importance of a safe relationship with dental patients, oral health literacy, communi-
cation in dentistry, behavior change for oral health and autonomy support and improving oral
health.
The second part, Children, rst comments on positive encounters for children to prevent
dental anxiety from the perspective of theory and practice, and then on family violence and child
maltreatment.
Dental Anxiety is the third part where we are presented with understanding development and
persistence of dental anxiety, psychological prevention and management of dental anxiety,
administered CBT for dental anxiety and injection phobia.The fourth part, Patients with Complex
Reactions and Co-morbidity, introduces persons with mental disorders as dental patients, how to
deal with gagging, child sexual abuse and oral health challenges, providing dental care to torture
survivors and the psychosocial impacts of orofacial features with examples from orthognathic
surgery.
The last part, Professionalism, makes an eloquent plea on dental professionalism and professional
behavior in practice and education, work stress, burnout risk, and engagement in dental practice
and working in partnership for better oral health care.
This book is the result of the international collaboration of prestigious authors from various
countries and continents and is an indispensable guide both for current and future dentists,
as well as for other professionals in the eld of oral health. The book Oral Health Psychology
contributes both to better oral health for patients of all ages, and to improving collaboration
between dental professionals, their patients and patient caregivers, ensuring increased job
satisfaction and reducing the risk of burnout among dental sta.
The Books Review is drafted in the reviewer’s sole wording and illustrates his opinions
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https://doi.org/10.25241/stomaeduj.2024.10(1-2).bookreview.2
Oral Health Psychology
Psychological Aspects Related to Dentistry
Editors: Tiril Willumsen, Jostein Paul Årøen Lein,
Ronald C. Gorter, Lena Myran
Publisher: Springer Nature, Switzerland
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-031-04247-8
Edition: 1/e
Publish Year: 2022
Pages: 352, Illustrated
Price: €106.99
Books Review
Marian V. Constantinescu
DDS, MSc, PhD
Holistic Dental & Medical Institute
of Bucharest - ROPOSTURO
Bucharest, Romania
e-mail: roposturo@gmail.com
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