Dental fear in school children and young adults attending public dental health care: prevalence and relationship to gender, oral disease and dental treatment; trends over 40 years.

BMC Oral Health · 2022 · PMC9044703 · PMID 35473601

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Figure 2 shows the dental fear regression lines indicating a decreasing trend in dental fear prevalence in all age groups over the 40-year study period.

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