ABSTRACT
Objective The aim of the study was to find out the status and influencing factors of dental anxiety and reduce it . Methods One hundred and ninety‐five patients in Chaoyang Central Hospital were selected via stomatology convenience sampling . Basic information ,modified dental anxiety scale(MDAS) ,State Anxiety Inventory(S‐AI) ,and two homemade scales were used to in‐vestigated .Results No difference in general baseline data was found in two groups of anxiety and non‐anxious ,except the propor‐tion of women in the group of dental anxiety was higher than non‐anxious group(60% vs .40% ,P=0 .008) .Logistic regression a‐nalysis showed that fear of bad medical technology(OR=2 .247);spray to mouth(OR=2 .151);affect normal chewing function(OR=2 .589);listen to the negative experiences(OR=2 .825);lack of knowledge of oral understanding(OR=2 .539);fear of pain(OR=2 .074) were independent risk factors for dental anxiety .Binary Logistic regression analysis also found that understand the oral health knowledge(OR=0 .374);listening to the music(OR=0 .279);anesthetics(OR=0 .305);encouragement and praise language (OR=0 .460) independent protective factors to relieve dental anxiety .Conclusion Worry about medical technology ,mouth spray , affecting normal function ,listen to the negative experiences ,lack of oral knowledge and fear of pain were common cause of dental anxiety .Study of oral knowledge ,music ,anesthetics ,medical encourage staff to use the language of praise were effective ways to re‐lieve dental anxiety .