On October 21, 2019 there was an article (and press release) and infographic. by the American Association of Endodontists (AAE) mis-titled Study: this Halloween, people more scared of root canals than spiders, snakes, sharks. As shown above via a bar chart, it actually described what more people were scared of than root canals – which was snakes. Results for eight fears from their survey of 1,000 U. S. adults are shown above. They mentioned that 65% of women versus 53% of men feared root canals.
As shown above in a second bar chart, AAE also surveyed seven activities people would rather do than get a root canal.
On October 22, 2019 Dentistry Today had an article also
mis-titled Root canals top list of patient fears this Halloween. It also showed
the infographic listing snakes as the most common fear.
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