Assessing Dental Anxiety in Naïve Patients: Development and Validation of the Naïve Dental Anxiety Scale (NDAS).

Cureus · 2026 · PMC13143492 · PMID 42099361

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Although participants aged 41-50 years demonstrated slightly lower anxiety scores and those above 50 years showed marginally higher scores, these variations did not reach statistical significance, indicating that age alone may not be a strong determinant of dental anxiety in this population.

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