When a child suffers with excessive anxiety regarding separation from home or from people to whom it has a strong emotional attachment (mother, father, siblings, grandparents etc).
Characterized by intrusive anxiety producing thoughts, repetitive behaviors or by combining these two - thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions).
Dental anxiety is commonplace among children. Nearly 20% of school age children are afraid of dentists. Treating children with dental anxiety presents a real challenge to dental clinicians.
