One of the most stressful events of any dental visit is an injection. Anxiety levels rise for everyone in the room, with the patient anticipating the potential pain and the dentist trying to figure ...

Fear of the needle has many origins, but in the case of palatal anesthetic injections, the reputation of a painful experience during dentistry is more deserved than in many other situations. Could a ...

Nobody enjoys getting the jab. Whether it's a standard shot, an epidural or dental injection, or a daily shot for needed medicine, the experience has created a class of phobias, with one Harvard study ...