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odontophobia
(redirected from Dental phobia)

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odontophobia [ō‚dänt·ə′fō·bē·ə]
(psychology)
An abnormal fear of teeth.
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My dental phobia was so bad that it had forced me to go to a hospital some years earlier in order to have three abscessed teeth removed while I was unconscious.
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The tragic case of eight-year-old Sophie Waller, who starved herself to death after she had some of her milk teeth removed, showed that, at its most extreme, a dental phobia can kill.
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Sophie Waller suffered an apparent extreme dental phobia and refused to eat, sleep or drink after her milk teeth came loose.
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