[Influential factors of dental anxiety among dental implantation patients].

PURPOSE: To explore the influential factors and of dental anxiety among dental implantation patients. METHODS: We conducted a dental anxiety survey in 226 patients, and analyzed the relationship of different factors with dental anxiety, including education, age, gender, number of implantation, systematic diseases, and analyzed source of dental anxiety. SPSS 17.0 software package was used for data analysis. RESULTS: Education, number of implantation, systematic diseases were the influential factors for dental anxiety. Women were more serious to medical staff. Instrument, low education level showed higher score of anxiety for medical staff and therapeutic efficacy. The more number of implantation the more serious to anxiety for efficacy, and patients with systematic disease presented extreme worries to clinical efficacy. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with different education background, number of implantation, systematic diseases have different levels dental of anxiety, doctors should pay more attentions to higher risk of dental anxiety patients according to different influential factors, and pertinence preventive measures should be adopted.