Preoperative Anxiety Before Paediatric Dental Rehabilitation Under General Anaesthesia: Associations with Accompanying Parent Characteristics and Caries Experience

Background/Objectives: Preoperative anxiety may complicate the delivery of comprehensive dental rehabilitation under general anaesthesia, yet evidence regarding child–parent anxiety relationships and dental disease burden in paediatric dental settings is limited. To evaluate children’s preoperative anxiety and its associations with accompanying parents’ state and trait anxiety, parent characteristics and dental caries experience.