Dental Fear in Adult Patients: A Case Report



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Submitted Feb 23, 2023
Published Apr 13, 2023
10.24018/ejdent.2023.4.2.256

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Dental fear is described as the situation that includes feelings of tension, fear, anxiety all three have as a result patients' reluctance to maintain a stable relationship with dental care or makes the dental visit particularly unpleasant. Dental fear appears to have adverse effects on patients' oral health. Dental fear may cause delay in dental treatment thus creating a vicious cycle. The frequency of dental fear in a sample of adult patients seems to be high and appears to be related to certain epidemiological characteristics such as gender, age, education, place of residence. The aim of the study is to present a case of an adult woman 44 years old that had an extremely bad oral health because she was suffering from dental fear, from her adolescence and had more than 20 years to visit the dentist asking for treatment.

Keywords: Anxiety bad dental health dental fear fear for the dentist

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