Introduction
pain, anxiety, tooth
Dental anxiety and fear are defined as an abnormal fear of going to the dentist [Aromatherapy is the use of essential oils for therapeutic purposes, and it has received attention as an alternative medicine method to control anxiety during medical settings [To the best of our knowledge, the majority of those articles only stated whether or not olfactory aromatherapy is effective, but they made no predictions about its potency. Furthermore, the majority of those studies searched the impact of olfactory aromatherapy on local anesthesia and tooth extraction procedures, but not on other dental procedures. Moreover, they did not investigate at which stage of dental visits olfactory aromatherapy is most effective. As a result, this study was designed to answer the following questions: 1) What is the potency of olfactory aromatherapy in reducing pain perception and anxiety during dental visits? 2) Which dental procedure is significantly influenced by the use of olfactory aromatherapy? And 3) When is the greatest effect of olfactory aromatherapy recorded in dental settings? Therefore, this study amid to investigate to what extent olfactory aromatherapy is able to reduce the intensity of dental pain and the level of dental anxiety. It also attempted to corelate between olfactory aromatherapy, stages of dental visits, and various dental procedures.