Abstract
ObjectivesInformation was collected to identify anxiety in dental patients visiting a dental clinic using the Dental Anxiety Scale, their level of psychological distress using the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 and identifying a correlation between these groups as well as the gender and age.Data descriptionThis data contains a set of 1550 patients’ answers to questionnaires taken before dental treatment in a dental clinic. It is divided into male and female patients as well as according to their age. The level of Dental Anxiety can be interpreted by answers chosen in the Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) and the level of psychological distress by answers chosen in the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18). This dataset should help to encourage more research in the field of dental anxiety and we hope to see more comparisons with our data in the future or in different regions of the world.
Highlights
Dental anxiety is a very common anxiety disorder in the general population
It is alarming that even today 80% of all adults in industrial countries feel discomfort before dental treatment, 20% feel scared of it, whereas 5% evade it fully [1]
Dental treatment applies to all age groups, whereas anxiety and depression are more frequent in the younger patients [2] [3]
Summary
Dental anxiety is a very common anxiety disorder in the general population. It is alarming that even today 80% of all adults in industrial countries feel discomfort before dental treatment, 20% feel scared of it, whereas 5% evade it fully [1].Dental treatment applies to all age groups, whereas anxiety and depression are more frequent in the younger patients [2] [3]. Dental treatment applies to all age groups, whereas anxiety and depression are more frequent in the younger patients [2] [3]. The focus of collecting this information was to provide a current database of questionnaires describing the emotional status of several patients linked to the following dental treatment. The Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) was introduced by Corah in 1969 and today it is still one of the main instruments to assess dental fear in patients [6, 7].
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