Cultural issues in dental education / Vishal R. Aggarwal and Farida Fortune -- Oral health and quality of life / Marita R. Inglehart -- Stress and inflammation / Annsofi Johannsen and Anders Gustafsson -- Saliva in health and disease / Mahvash Navazesh -- Surface EMG biofeedback in assessment and functional muscle reeducation / Bruce Mehler -- Hypnosis in dentistry / Bruce Peltier -- Environmental, emotional, and cognitive determinants of dental pain / Daniel W. McNeil, Alison M. Vargovich, John T. Sorrell, and Kevin E. Vowles -- Cosmetic dentistry : concerns with facial appearance and body dysmorphic disorder / Ad de Jongh -- Chronic orofacial pain : biobehavioral perspectives / Samuel F. Dworkin and Richard Ohrbach -- Chairside techniques for reducing dental fear / Ronald W. Botto, Evelyn Donate-Bartfield, and Patricia Nihill -- Sleep and awake bruxism / Alan G. Glaros and Cody Hanson -- Dental fear and anxiety associated with oral health care : conceptual and clinical issues / Daniel W. McNeil and Cameron L. Randall -- Behavior management in dentistry : thumb sucking / Raymond G. Miltenberger and John T. Rapp -- Management of childrens distress and disruptions during dental treatment -- / Keith D. Allen and Dustin P. Wallace -- Stress, coping and periodontal disease / Gernot Wimmer and Walther Wegscheider -- Self-efficacy perceptions in oral health behavior / Anna-Maija Syrjälä -- Drooling and tongue protrusion / Jan van der Burg, Robert Didden and Giulio Lancioni -- Listening / Bruce Peltier -- Interpersonal communication training in dental education / Toshiko Yoshida and Kazuhiko Fujisaki -- Biopsychosocial considerations in geriatric dentistry / Georgia Dounis and David Cappelli -- Health behavior and dental care of diabetics / Mirka C. Niskanen and Matti L.E. Knuuttila -- Oral health promotion with people with special needs / Paul Glassman -- The use of humor in pediatric dentistry / Ari Kupietzky and Joseph Shapira -- Work stress, burnout risk, and engagement in dental practice / Ronald C. Gorter -- Role of dentists as oral physicians in physical and mental health / Donald B. Giddon and Ruth Hertzman-Miller -- Appendix : brief relaxation training procedure for use in dentistry -- Ronald W. Botto.