Table 2 Percentages of responses to dental anxiety scale questions
Dental anxiety scale | Not anxious | Slightly anxious | Fairly anxious | Very anxious | Extremely anxious | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Males (N = 171) | 1. If you will go to your dentist for treatment tomorrow, how would you feel? | 49.1 | 25.1 | 8.8 | 7.6 | 9.4 |
2. If you were sitting in the waiting room (waiting for treatment), how would you feel? | 43.3 | 22.8 | 17.5 | 6.4 | 9.9 | |
3. If you were about to have a local anesthetic injection in your gum above an upper back tooth, how would you feel? | 37.4 | 14 | 18.1 | 9.4 | 21.1 | |
4. If you were about to have a tooth drilled, how would you feel? | 38 | 10.5 | 15.2 | 18.7 | 17.5 | |
5. If you were about to have your teeth scaled and polished, how would you feel? | 64.9 | 15.8 | 13.5 | 1.2 | 4.7 | |
Females (N = 269) | 1. If you will go to your dentist for treatment tomorrow, how would you feel? | 32.7 | 21.2 | 17.5 | 16.4 | 12.3 |
2. If you were sitting in the waiting room (waiting for treatment), how would you feel? | 30.9 | 19.3 | 23 | 11.9 | 14.9 | |
3. If you were about to have a local anesthetic injection in your gum above an upper back tooth, how would you feel? | 24.9 | 16.4 | 11.5 | 13.8 | 33.5 | |
4. If you were about to have a tooth drilled, how would you feel? | 30.5 | 11.2 | 14.9 | 18.6 | 24.9 | |
5. If you were about to have your teeth scaled and polished, how would you feel? | 52.8 | 21.9 | 16 | 4.8 | 4.5 | |
Total (N = 440) | 1. If you will go to your dentist for treatment tomorrow, how would you feel? | 39.1 | 22.7 | 14.1 | 13 | 11.1 |
2. If you were sitting in the waiting room (waiting for treatment), how would you feel? | 35.7 | 20.7 | 20.9 | 9.8 | 13 | |
3. If you were about to have a local anesthetic injection in your gum above an upper back tooth, how would you feel? | 29.8 | 15.5 | 14.1 | 12 | 28.6 | |
4. If you were about to have a tooth drilled, how would you feel? | 33.3 | 10.9 | 15 | 18.7 | 22.1 | |
5. If you were about to have your teeth scaled and polished, how would you feel? | 57 | 19.8 | 15.2 | 3.4 | 4.6 | |