Experiences of Dental Care and Dental Anxiety in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Table 2

Corah Dental Anxiety Scale.

Estimate the level of fear you would perceive in the situations described below.
(1) If you had to go to the dentist tomorrow, how would you feel about it?
(a) I would look forward to it as a reasonably enjoyable experience.
(b) I would not care one way or the other
(c) I would be a little uneasy about it.
(d) I would be afraid that it would be unpleasant and painful.
(e) I would be very frightened of what the dentist might do.
(2) When you are waiting in the dentist’s office for your turn in the chair, how would you feel?
(a) Relaxed.
(b) A little uneasy.
(c) Tense.
(d) Anxious.
(e) So anxious that I sometimes break out in seat or almost feel physically sick.
(3) When you are in the dentist’s chair waiting while he gets his drill ready to begin working on your teeth, how do you feel?
(a) Relaxed.
(b) A little uneasy.
(c) Tense.
(d) Anxious.
(e) So anxious that I sometimes break out in seat or almost feel physically sick.
(4) You are in the dentist’s chair to have your teeth cleaned. While you are waiting and the dentist is getting out the instruments, which he will use to scrape your teeth around the gums, how do you feel?
(a) Relaxed.
(b) A little uneasy.
(c) Tense.
(d) Anxious.
(e) So anxious that I sometimes break out in seat or almost feel physically sick.