Background: In the modern era of medical practice, dental field is a place full of stress, depression and anxiety among both dentists and patients that exert a bad effect on their performance as well as psychosocial well-being.

Aim: To determine the prevalence of anxiety (by DASS scoring system) associated with dental treatments among patients.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Methodology: This study with enrolled patients (n=452) was carried out after research ethical committee’s approval at orthodontic clinic, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Both male and female patients were enrolled. Different levels of anxiety among them were noted after filling DASS questionnaire profoma. Data was analyzed by SPSS version 22. If the normality and equal variance assumption were satisfied, the difference in mean of anxiety scale scores was tested by using a t-test given demographic variables such as gender, educational level and frequency of visits as p-value ≤0.05 was considered significant.

Results: The mean age of all the enrolled subjects was 45.5 ± 1.6 with the range of 20 to 70 years. Moderate dental anxiety of the study population had a mean DAS-R of (10.4183± 4.23621) with p-value of >0.05.

Conclusion: We concluded that anxiety with insignificant difference was noted between both genders associated with dental treatments.

Keywords: Dental procedures, Anxiety and DASS system.