Fear and Anxiety Scales

This book contains all the dental fear and anxiety scales that can be used in pediatric patients. The contents are well-structured and presented in a simple manner that makes it easy for readers. It is the duty and responsibility of the dentist to provide excellent dental care to these patients with special needs as well. The dentist should communicate with the patient and identify their source of fear and anxiety, with adjuvant use of self-reporting anxiety and fear scales to enable categorization as mild, moderate, or extreme anxiety or dental-phobic. It is important to differentiate between fear, anxiety and phobia when dealing with pediatric patients. Various scales can be used for assessment of anxious child. This book beautifully summarizes all these scales with their advantages and disadvantages.