COMPARISON OF SELF REPORTED DENTAL ANXIETY OF DENTAL PROCEDURE AMONG PRECLINICAL AND CLINICAL DENTAL STUDENTS

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Dental anxiety is a term used to describe fear, anxiety or stress in a dental setting. Dental anxiety can be associated with certain triggers such as needles, drills or the dental setting in general. Dental fear and dental anxiety are the major factors causing much trouble for the people attending to their own  personal health.Almost half of the dentists say stress in their job is exceeding their ability to cope and the most stressful aspects of their work are related to regulation and fear of litigation from patients. The aim of the study is to evaluate the comparison of self reported dental anxiety of dental procedure among preclinical and clinical dental students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A descriptive cross sectional hospital based study in the Saveetha Dental College and Hospital (Saveetha University). Sample size was estimated using the manual calculation formula and  Data Will be entered in microsoft excel sheet  and analysed using SPSS software ( IBM software version 23;NY). Descriptive statistics was expressed by mean of number and frequency and percentage and the chi-square test was used to find out association between variables level of statistical significance will be p<0.05. RESULTS:  The present study represents the number of responses for the procedure eliciting the highest dental anxiety level among dental students. Majority of the participants felt the number of appointments and the time required for further treatment elicitates the highest anxiety level. CONCLUSION: