Research Article
Anxiety due to Dental Treatment and Procedures among University Students and Its Correlation with Their Gender and Field of Study
Table 4
The distribution of participants according responses to the items of Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (
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| | Item | Not anxious | Slightly anxious | Fairly anxious | Anxious | Extremely anxious |
| | If you went to your dentist for treatment tomorrow, how would you feel? | 290 (41.4%) | 225 (32.1%) | 70 (10%) | 75 (10.7%) | 40 (5.7%) | | If you were sitting in the waiting room, how would you feel? | 247 (35.3%) | 206 (29.4%) | 117 (16.7%) | 76 (10.9%) | 54 (7.7%) | | If you were about to have a tooth drilled, how would you feel? | 79 (11.3%) | 132 (18.9%) | 133 (19.0%) | 170 (24.3%) | 186 (26.6%) | | If you were about to have your teeth scaled and polished, how would you feel? | 228 (32.6%) | 184 (26.3%) | 114 (16.3%) | 102 (14.6%) | 72 (10.3%) | | If you were about to have a local anesthetic injection in your gum, how would you feel? | 67 (9.6%) | 114 (16.3%) | 123 (17.6%) | 145 (20.7%) | 250 (35.7%) |
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