European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

DENTAL ANXIETY-A REAL FACT

*Amit Tirth and Sunil Chaudhary

ABSTRACT

Anxiety associated with the thought of visiting the dentist for preventive care and over dental procedure is referred to as dental anxiety. It is a multi system response to a believed threat or danger. It is an individual subjective experience which varies among people. A patient‟s anxiety also poses major management problems for the dental team as more treatment will be required for an anxious patient and is very likely to miss appointments. Dental anxiety varies from patient to patient. Dental phobia is a more serious condition that leaves people panic stricken and terrified. People with dental phobia have awareness that the fear is totally irrational. People with dental phobia not take the treatment and put up with the gum infection, pain without treatment dental phobia getting worse. The dentist should communicate with the patient and identify the reason of fear and anxiety, with auxiliary use of self reporting anxiety and fear scales to enable categorization as mild, moderate and extreme anxiety. Extremely anxious patients or phobic patient needs management.

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