Dental anxiety affects around 70% of the people living in Germany. They suffer from dental anxiety yet let themselves receive dental care, although they do so in part under significant tension. However, there are people whose fear exceeds normal levels. For these people, merely the thought alone of going to the dentist can trigger panic. An estimated four million people in Germany are afflicted with this dental anxiety. They avoid visiting a dentist out of fear, even when they are experiencing great pain and their teeth are in poor condition. Not only does this in part have considerable consequences for one’s health, it can also bring about social problems as well: poor teeth perceptible by others can lead the affected person to hardly open their mouth or to cover their lips with a finger when faced with other people, for example, when talking. In addition, they smile or laugh less out of a sense of shame, thereby severely limiting themselves in their interpersonal contacts both socially and professionally.