Levels of Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Simple Tooth Extraction: The Possible Contributing Factors

Aims: The current study aims to assess the levels of patients’ anxiety towards simple tooth extraction, and the difference in pre-extraction anxiety levels; if present; between genders and among different age groups. Materials and Methods: Two hundred and ninety-two patients who presented for simple tooth extraction were recruited. Each participant filled a self-administrated questionnaire; the tooth-extraction anxiety (TEA) scale and asked to rate the amount of their anxiety toward tooth extraction on 11- point Numeric Rating Scale (NRS). Results: Two hundred and sixty-three patients (90.07%) filled-out the questionnaire completely. Cronbach’s α for the present sample was 0.84 correlated significantly with NRS (0.48, P