Condition

Dental Anxiety clinical trials and research

• 17Clinical trials
• 1NIH research projects
• 1New in 30 days
• 8Countries

Newest Dental Anxiety clinical trials

All recruiting trials (17)

• Alpha-Band Binaural Beats During Third Molar Surgery

  This study tests whether listening to 10 Hz alpha-band binaural beats embedded in rain sounds can reduce preoperative anxiety and improve recovery for adults undergoing impacted third molar extraction.

  Recruiting Recep Tayyip Erdogan University · Rize · NCT07881640

• Virtual Reality storytelling versus a storybook to ease dental anxiety in children

  This study tests whether watching a VR dental story or reading the same story aloud by a dentist helps 6- to 10-year-old Arabic-speaking children feel calmer before dental visits.

  Recruiting King Abdulaziz University · Jeddah, Mecca Region · NCT07863661

• Virtual reality to ease anxiety during wisdom tooth surgery

  A randomized trial tests whether wearing a VR headset with relaxing scenes before and during mandibular third molar removal reduces anxiety compared with usual care.

  Recruiting Hanoi Medical University · Hanoi, Hanoi · NCT07853014

• Multisensory Approaches to Help Kids Handle Dental Checkups

  This study tests whether VR distraction, a weighted blanket, or both can help 5–9 year-olds stay calmer and tolerate dental procedures with local anesthesia.

  Recruiting Bezmialem Vakif University · Istanbul, Fatih · NCT07848542

• Compare how much pain kids feel during local anesthesia with what a parent thinks they feel

  This study tests whether a parent can accurately gauge their child’s pain during local anesthesia during dental treatment.

  Recruiting University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand · Clermont-Ferrand · NCT07718477

• BrightHearts biofeedback vs virtual reality vs verbal distraction for kids during a dental nerve block

  This study tests whether BrightHearts biofeedback relaxation is as good as or better than virtual reality distraction or verbal distraction for reducing anxiety in children during an inferior alveolar nerve block.

  Recruiting October University for Modern Sciences and Arts · Giza · NCT07717229

• Aromatherapy and computer-controlled local anesthesia to ease children's tooth extractions

  This study tests whether inhaled lavender and orange aromatherapy and a computer-controlled local anesthesia system reduce anxiety and pain for 6–12-year-olds having a lower primary molar removed.

  Recruiting Istanbul University · Istanbul, Istanbul · NCT07547371

• Using a kaleidoscope or cartoons to reduce pain and anxiety during dental injections for children

  This test will see if using a kaleidoscope or watching cartoons reduces pain, fear, and anxiety during local anesthesia injections in children aged 7–12.

  Recruiting Dicle University · Diyarbakır, Diyarbakır · NCT07462364

• Turtle-assisted session to reduce dental anxiety in children

  This study tests whether a structured turtle-assisted interaction during routine dental visits helps 6- to 10-year-old children stay calmer and cooperate during non-invasive procedures.

  Recruiting Igdir University · Iğdır, Iğdır · NCT07439289

• Augmented reality glasses or noise-cancelling headphones to reduce anxiety during dental procedures

  This trial will test whether AR glasses or noise-cancelling headphones with relaxing music can help adults feel less anxious during routine dental and minor oral surgical procedures.

  Recruiting Medical University of Warsaw · Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship · NCT07398898

• Can virtual reality with hypnotic scripts ease dental anxiety during wisdom tooth removal?

  This trial tests whether using virtual reality with hypnotic scripts can lower anxiety and pain for adults undergoing wisdom tooth extraction compared with standard local anesthesia alone.

  Recruiting University Hospital, Strasbourg, France · Strasbourg · NCT07273968

• Music therapy during restorative dental care

  This study will see if listening to classical or Turkish music during a routine filling reduces anxiety and stress markers in adults with moderate-to-high dental anxiety.

  Recruiting Ataturk University · Erzurum, Erzurum · NCT07173491

• AI-supported child-friendly communication to reduce dental anxiety during local anesthesia in children

  This compares AI-assisted child-friendly communication with traditional behavior techniques to see if it reduces anxiety, stress, and pain during local anesthesia in children aged 6–12.

  Recruiting Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University · Çanakkale, Kepez · NCT07133919

• Using AR and VR glasses to help children feel less pain and anxiety during local dental anesthesia

  This project will try augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) glasses to see if they help children aged 5–8 feel less pain and anxiety during local dental anesthesia.

  Recruiting Ain Shams University · Cairo, Egypt · NCT07060170

• Electronic versus conventional dental syringes for reducing pain and anxiety during local anesthesia in children

  This test will see if electronic dental syringes cause less pain and anxiety than conventional syringes in children aged 6–8 during local anesthetic injections.

  Recruiting Ain Shams University · Cairo · NCT07045116

• Using aromatherapy to reduce anxiety and pain during dental treatments

  This study tests if using sweet orange and tea tree essential oils during dental treatments can help reduce anxiety and pain for adults.

  Recruiting Sichuan University · Chengdu, Sichuan · NCT06347679

• Using virtual reality to reduce dental anxiety in children

  This study is testing if using virtual reality games can help reduce anxiety in children during dental visits better than just watching cartoons on a TV.

  Recruiting St. Justine's Hospital · Montreal, Quebec · NCT06182462

NIH-funded research (1)

Early-stage science funded by the US National Institutes of Health. Most of these projects don't enroll patients, but they show what is being worked on.

• Online help for people with dental anxiety

  This study is looking at a helpful online program that can ease dental anxiety right before your appointment, and it wants to see if it's more effective when dental staff or trained psychologists guide you through it.

  NIH research Temple Univ of the Commonwealth · Philadelphia, United States · NIH-10458657

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Quick answers

How many Dental Anxiety clinical trials are recruiting right now?

17, as of November 12, 2026. 1 of them was first registered in the last 30 days. We update this list each time we refresh our data from ClinicalTrials.gov.

Where are these trials running?

In 8 countries. The most sites are in Turkey (Türkiye) (7 trials), Egypt (3 trials), France (2 trials), Poland (1 trial), Vietnam (1 trial). Each study page lists its sites and which ones are recruiting.

How do I join one?

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