Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fear of going to the dentist is called odontophobia. One of the biggest sources of this anxiety comes from the high-pitched, ...

King’s College Dental Institute’s Professor Brian Millar thinks that his invention—a noise cancellation device that eliminates the unnerving sound of dental drills—will make people not fear the ...

Hands up, who doesn't get just the teensiest bit nervous about going to the dentist? Not many of you, I'll wager. Dentophobia – fear of dentists and dental care – is one of the most common phobias, ...

Dental drills are to be made quieter to reduce patients' anxiety. Japanese scientists are studying the aeroacoustics of dental drills so they can pinpoint the anxiety-triggering sounds and design new, ...

Neuroscientists have found that the sounds of dental instruments like drills evoke fear and anxiety in some people, according to a new study presented at this week's Society for Neuroscience annual ...

The thought of going to the dentist is enough to make many people cringe, but patients may not be the only ones feeling the stress. An area doctoral student is studying whether dentists may be hurting ...