Combine or Separate Future Pain? The Impact of Current Pain on Decisions about Future Dental Treatments

Patients are often given the option of undergoing future painful treatments in one or multiple sessions (e.g., extracting two wisdom teeth on one or two different days). In a randomized controlled field experiment, we investigated the impact of transient pain on patients’ decision to combine or sepa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andrade, Eduardo B., Bianchini, Marco Aurélio, Lucchiari, Newton
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660337/