Dental anxiety in adults is common in St. John's, and most people who skip appointments are not careless. They are scared, and many have been scared for decades. Penn Dental Medicine reports that between 50% and 80% of U.S. adults feel some degree of anxiety about visiting the dentist, so a nervous patient in the waiting room is the norm rather than the exception. The real problem is what anxiety does next. It delays care, small problems grow into emergencies, and each emerge