Satu Lahti
Professor, PhD, Dental Specialist in Public Health, DDS
Department of Community Dentistry satu.lahti@utu.fi +358 29 450 2417 +358 40 701 2386 Lemminkäisenkatu 2 Turku : 437 |
Dental fear and anxiety; Oral health-related quality of life; Oral health promotion
For more information, please have a look at my attached short CV and publications.
My main research areas are dental fear and anxiety, oral health-related quality of life, oral health behaviors of children and adolescents and schools as oral health promoting actors. We utilize large national longitudinal data set of FinnBrain Cohort Study (www.finnbrain.fi), Health 2000 and Health 2011, Northern Birth Cohort Study 1966 with national and international collaborators.
Among adults we study the prevalence and changes in dental fear as well as the determinants of dental fear (such as physiological, psychological and oral health-related factors). Among children we are interested in the interplay of family-, child-, environment and oral health-related factors in the development of dental fear. We study the association of oral- health related quality of life on different aspects of oral health, dental fear and anxiety and use of oral health services. Research on oral health behaviors focuses on behaviors, attitudes and knowledge and their changes and interrelationships among children and adolescents, especially within family from early childhood. Research on schools as oral health promoting actors aims to find out if these activities (such as sweet and soft drink selling have changed after national interventions and whether there are differences between the schools.
I am in charge of undergraduate and postgraduate training (doctoral studies) in my discipline Community dentistry. I am also in charge of training of dental specialists in public health care (one of the five specialities in Finland) in University of Turku.
I have worked as Vice-Head in charge of Education of Institute of Dentistry both in University of Turku and University of Oulu. I have pedagogical training and have obtained Special Qualification of a Dental Educator.
- Gender-specific associations between the dimensions of alexithymia personality trait and dental anxiety in parents of the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2022)
- European Journal of Oral Sciences
- Myös isien harjaustottumuksilla vaikutusta yksivuotiaan hampaiden harjaamiseen (2022)
- Suomen Hammaslääkärilehti
- Oral health-related quality of life among home-dwelling older people with and without domiciliary care (2022)
- Gerodontology
- Perceived oral health and oral health behaviours among home-dwelling older people with and without domiciliary care (2022)
- Gerodontology
- Changes and determinants of unmet oral health treatment need (2021)
- Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
- Concurrent heavy use of general and oral health services among Finnish adults (2021)
- Community Dental Health
- Hair Cortisol Concentrations Are Associated with Dental Anxiety during Pregnancy (2021)
- Dentistry Journal
- Is the oral health-related quality of life associated with quality of life among pregnant Finnish families: a cross-sectional study (2021)
- Acta Odontologica Scandinavica
- Modification of national OSCE due to COVID-19-Implementation and students' feedback (2021)
- European Journal of Dental Education
- Suunterveys yhteiskunnan laidalla (2021)
- Suomen Hammaslääkärilehti
- Changes in dental fear and its relations to anxiety and depression in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2020)
- European Journal of Oral Sciences
- Depression, drugs and dental anxiety in prisons: A mediation model explaining dental decay experience (2020)
- Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
- Psychometric properties of the japanese version of the single dental anxiety question: A cross-sectional online survey (2020)
- Open Dentistry Journal
- Tobacco use and dental fear among 15-16 year-old adolescents in Finland (2020)
- Community Dental Health
- Virtual Reality Relaxation to Decrease Dental Anxiety: Immediate Effect Randomized Clinical Trial (2020)
- JDR Clinical & Translational Research
- Adult Finns’ perceptions about communication with the dentist during their latest visit (2019)
- Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
- Association of depression and anxiety with different aspects of dental anxiety in pregnant mothers and their partners (2019)
- Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
- Costs of dental care and its financial impacts on patients in a population with low availability of services (2019)
- Community Dental Health
- Dental students' and patients' perceived importance and knowledge of dental anxiety (2019)
- European Journal of Dental Education
- Hammashoitopelon psykologinen hoito aikuisilla (2019)
- Suomen Hammaslääkärilehti