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Background   The aim of the present study is to compare the dental anxiety levels between two outpatient clinics.Methods   Two hundred and seventy patients treated in two different clinics of minor oral surgery and dental extraction polyclinic in the Dental Faculty of Eskisehir Osmangazi University were included in the study. The impacted third molar surgery group and conventional dental extraction group consisted of 101 and 169 patients, respectively. The Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) and Dental Fear Scale (DFS) were used to measure anxiety levels in patients treated in both clinics. Tests were made in an isolated room preoperatively. The differences in anxiety levels according to education status and gender were also evaluated.Results   The impacted third molar surgery group showed a significant increase in dental anxiety measured with DFS questionnaire ( p  < 0.05). However, MDAS revealed that there was no difference between anxiety levels between the impacted third molar surgery and conventional dental extraction groups ( p  > 0.05). There was also no difference in anxiety levels between patients with different education status ( p  > 0.05). Female patients demonstrated higher levels of anxiety in both MDAS and DFS indexes ( p  < 0.05).Conclusion   Dental anxiety may be higher in patients treated with impacted third molar surgery compared with conventional dental extraction. The education status of patients may not affect dental anxiety. Female patients may show increased levels of dental anxiety in conventional dental and impacted third molar extractions.

The Comparison of Dental Anxiety between Patients Treated with Impacted Third Molar Surgery and Conventional Dental Extraction