odontophobia

English

Etymology

From odonto- +‎ -phobia.

Noun

odontophobia (usually uncountable, plural odontophobias)

1. An irrational fear of dentistry.
   • 2008 January 10, “Scared of this? You must be lutraphobic”, in The Daily Mail‎^[1]:

     Odontophobia, or the fear of dental work, seems equally plausible, as does pentheraphobia - fear of the mother-in-law.

   • 2019 October 8, Rosa De Stefano, “Psychological Factors in Dental Patient Care: Odontophobia”, in Medicina, →DOI:

     In fact, in dentistry, there is often a widespread condition of odontophobia among patients.

   • 2022 March 25, “Dentophobia (Fear of Dentists)”, in Cleaveland Clinic‎^[2]:

     People with dentophobia, also called odontophobia, have a fear of dentists. Someone with dentophobia may have extreme anxiety at the thought of going to the dentist or while in the dentist’s office.

Synonyms

• dentophobia

Derived terms

• odontophobic

Translations

fear of dentistry

• Danish: tandlægeangst c, tandlægeskræk c, odontofobi c
• Dutch: tandartsangst (nl) m, tandartsvrees f, tandartsfobie f, dentofobie f, odontofobie f
• French: odontophobie (fr) f
• German: Odontophobie f, Dentophobie f, Zahnbehandlungsphobie f, Dentalphobie f, Oralphobie f, Zahnbehandlungsangst f
• Italian: odontofobia (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tannlegeskrekk m, odontofobi (no) m

  Nynorsk: tannlegeskrekk m, odontofobi m

• Polish: odontofobia f
• Swedish: tandläkarskräck (sv) c, tandvårdsrädsla c, odontofobi c