Fear is expressed as an unpleasant emotion caused by threat of danger, pain and harm. Anxiety emotional state a person such doubt, mental-conflict, disappointment. Phobia persistent, unrealistic intense fear specific stimulus, leading to absolute avoidance the perceived danger. Corah’s Dental Scale (CDAS), Modified (MDAS), Survey (DFS) are tools assess anxiety. anxiety can be managed change in ...

BACKGROUND A growing body of literature describes the performance of dental fear questionnaires in various countries. We describe the psychometric properties of Greek versions of the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) and the Dental Fear Survey (DFS) in adult Greek patients. METHODS Greek versions of the MDAS and DFS were administered to two samples of adult dental patients. In the first sa...

Sedation is an option for controlling fear and anxiety related to a visit to the dentist. The goal of this study was to capture, by means of a questionnaire, the perceptions of twenty dentists, twenty dental students and twenty lay people concerning the use of sedatives in a dental environment. The responses were evaluated using the quantitative-interpretative method. Dentists: 75% had knowledg...

The aim of this study was to compare a group of children with high levels of anxiety during dental treatment who required physical restraint (group 1) to a group of children who collaborated with treatment (group 2). Child stress and its relationship with the manifestations of stress of the mothers and the dental students were assessed. The following psychological evaluation techniques were app...