Dental anxiety is something that is learned during the course of one’s life. Even an unpleasant or frightening experience at the dentist’s office is enough to lead people to associate strong fear with a dental treatment. As a result, they may also avoid visiting a dentist or only be able to endure a visit with great anxiety and tension. An unpleasant experience can thus create a situation where people react almost automatically with fearful thoughts and misgivings as well as with anxious physical tension and often even avoidance behavior. Dental anxiety in parents can also lead to fear of the dentist in their children, for example, if the children are given the impression that a visit to the dentist’s office is associated with pain and fear. The children experience how their parents react with anxiety in the treatment room or hear them talk about unpleasant dental treatments, causing the children to develop their own fear of the dentist.