also need time to interpret the multi-item dental fear questionnaire. Thus, it is not easy to add a multi-item dental fear screening questionnaire such as the CFSS-DS.
Several single-item dental fear questions and surveys have been developed. 16 – 19 Although their reliability and validity have been tested and good outcomes reported, the research populations consisted primarily of adults. Some single-item measures, such as the Dental Anxiety Question (DAQ), 19 were administered to children and indicated reasonable results. 4 , 20 However, psychometric