Assessment of anxiety in patient’s undergone surgical extraction and root canal treatment – A comparative study

Abstract

: To quantitate and compare the anxiety level associated with patients who have undergone surgical extraction of teeth and root canal treatment.: This study was conducted on 100 patients who reported to the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (50) requiring surgical extraction of teeth and Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics (50) requiring root canal treatment. Patients were randomly enrolled for the study and were given a questionnaire after the completion treatment (extraction and root canal treatment). The anxiety levels were evaluated based on the scores of the Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale. : The results of the present study showed that the dental anxiety was higher among subjects who have undergone surgical extraction of teeth when compared to the patients undergone root canal treatment. : In conclusion, maxillofacial surgeons should consider that patients initially visit dental office for treatment of surgical extraction of teeth with severe anxiety which could be due to conditioning or learned responses which these patients might have experienced or first visit. Thus a prior awareness of the patient's predisposition to dental anxiety may be of value, enabling to take appropriate measures pre-operatively. Thus our aim is to give anxiety free dental treatment to the patients and better postoperative recovery.