Magnitude and Determinants of Dental Anxiety among Adult Patients Attending Public Dental Clinics in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania

Table 2

Means and standard deviation of Modified Dental Anxiety Scale items.

MDAS item	Mean ± SD
Q1: if you were sitting in the waiting room	1.82 ± 0.96
Q2: if you were about to have a tooth drilled	2.45 ± 1.21
Q3: if you were about to have your teeth scaled and polished	1.90 ± 1.07
Q4: if you were about to have a local anesthetic injection into your gum	2.43 ± 1.19
Q5: if you were about to have a tooth extracted	2.68 ± 1.28
Q6: if you went to the dentist for treatment in the future	1.56 ± 0.97