Dentine Hypersensitivity

Part One: Introduction and BackgroundChapter 1. Introduction to Dentine HypersensitivityChapter 2. Clinical Presentation and Physiological MechanismsChapter 3. The Burden of HypersensitivityChapter 4. The Management of Dentine HypersensitivityChapter 5. The Importance of Subjective Assessments of Dentine Hypersensitivity

Part Two: The Subjective Experience of Dentine HypersensitivityChapter 6. The Everyday Impact of Dentine Sensitivity: Personal and Functional AspectsChapter 7. Construction and Validation of the Quality of Life Measure for Dentine Hypersensitivity (DHEQ)Chapter 8. Ice-Cream Related Quality of Life: Constructing a questionnaire to capture: Changes in the impacts of Dentine HypersensitivityChapter 9. The Dentine Hypersensitivity Experience Questionnaire (DHEQ): A Longitudinal Validation Study Chapter 10: Derivation of a short form of the Dentine Hypersensitivity QuestionnaireChapter 11: Development of the Chinese version of the Dentine Hypersensitivity Experience Questionnaire

Part Three: Psychology and the Measurement of Pain and ImpactChapter 12: Response shift and Oral Health Quality of Life in Dentine HypersensitivityChapter 13: Development of Labeled Magnitude Scales for the Assessment of Pain of Dentine HypersensitivityChapter 14: The Role of Illness Beliefs and coping in the adjustment to Dentine Hypersensitivity

Part Four: Dentine Hypersensitivity and the Construction of MeaningChapter 15: The Experience of Health and Illness: Polycontextural Meaning and Accounts of IllnessChapter 16: Differentiation and Displacement: Unpicking the Relationship between Accounts of Illness and Social StructureChapter 17. Consumer Advertising and the Meaning of Dentine Hypersensitivity

Part Five: Discussion and ConclusionChapter 18: Conclusions

AppendicesAppendix One DHEQ Long formAppendix Two DHEQ Short form