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Background: The aim of the present study is to compare the dental anxiety levels between two outpatient clinics., Methods: Two hundred and seventy patients treated in two different clinics of minor oral surgery and dental extraction polyclinic in the Dental Faculty of Eskisehir Osmangazi University were included in the study. The impacted third molar surgery group and conventional dental extraction group consisted of 101 and 169 patients, respectively. The Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) and Dental Fear Scale (DFS) were used to measure anxiety levels in patients treated in both clinics. Tests were made in an isolated room preoperatively. The differences in anxiety levels according to education status and gender were also evaluated., Results: The impacted third molar surgery group showed a significant increase in dental anxiety measured with DFS questionnaire ( p < 0.05). However, MDAS revealed that there was no difference between anxiety levels between the impacted third molar surgery and conventional dental extraction groups ( p > 0.05). There was also no difference in anxiety levels between patients with different education status ( p > 0.05). Female patients demonstrated higher levels of anxiety in both MDAS and DFS indexes ( p < 0.05)., Conclusion: Dental anxiety may be higher in patients treated with impacted third molar surgery compared with conventional dental extraction. The education status of patients may not affect dental anxiety. Female patients may show increased levels of dental anxiety in conventional dental and impacted third molar extractions., Competing Interests: All authors declare no conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2021 Omur Dereci et al.)

Objective: To discuss the effect of psychological nursing based on relaxation training for the psychological state in patients with impatced third molar removal surgery. Methods: A total of one hundred patients with impacted third molar removal surgery were selected from June 2015 to June 2017 in People's Liberation Army No. 105 hospital. According to the nursing method, all patients were divided into psychological intervention group and the control group, 50 cases in each group, the control group was given routine nursing intervention and the psychological intervention group was given psychological nursing intervention based on relaxation training. Results: The after intervention Corah ' s modified dental anxiety scale (6.3±1.2), Stouthard dental fear scale (62.9±6.5) scores and heart rate [(76.4±5.2) bpm], systolic blood pressure [(102.5±6.3) mmHg], diastolic blood pressure [(75.3±3.1) mmHg] levels of psychological group were significantly lower than those of the control group. The once removal success rate, intraoperative relaxation sense rate of psychological group were significantly higher than those of the control group, the teeth extraction time of psychological group was significantly lower than that of the control group, the difference was statistically significant ( P =0.013, P =0.003). Conclusions: Psychological nursing intervention based on relaxation training can effectively improve the mental state and stress state of patients with impacted third molar removal surgery, which is beneficial to the process of the surgery.