Introduction:

Dental anxiety or consulting fear to dentist appointment and/or dental treatment, is one of the most frequent problems to the professional which can have an impact to the oral health. The objective is to assess the level of anxiety in patients that attend to appointments in a dental clinic from a private company of dental care in the year of 2015.

Materials and methods:

The study design is cross-sectional, Corah's Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) was utilized. And question were made about the components of dental services that generate dental anxiety.

Results:

The sample consisted of 297 adult patients, 54.85 % were males and middle age was 28. It was obtained a low number of patients with extreme anxiety (7.74 %) according to the questions; being the highest percentage for local anesthetic injection for dental treatment (85.52 %). A 17.85 % had a high level of anxiety and 17.85 % had a severe level of anxiety. The component that caused anxiety the most was tooth extraction with a 40.40 %.

Conclusion:

The patient must feel as relax as possible when going to a dentist appointment that is why would be needed to speak with care providers about different techniques to reduce dental anxiety on patients.

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