Dental anxiety has been a well-studied phenomenon since the late 1960s. The purpose of this study was to report self-reported levels of dental anxiety among the students in Esfahan province including Esfahan , Najafabad , Tiran , Mobarakeh and Nicabad City.
Methods:
In this Cross –sectional study, 1067 school children of the Esfahan Province recruited using stratified random sampling. Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) questionnaire was used to collect the information regarding dental anxiety among dental students. The inclusion criteria were students aged between 14-18 years who are not on medication.
Results:
According to DAS questionnaires 37.8% of dental student have low level of anxiety and 27.7% had high level of anxiety. There was a significant difference between the level of anxiety and gender but there was no significant difference between the frequency of visit dentists and dental anxiety.
Conclusions:
The self-reported dental anxiety levels in the context of increasing general anxiety in school student shows that the prevalence of dental anxiety is high in this range group especially in extraction and injection treatments.