Those who suffer with odontophobia will find it ironic that the man who developed the electric chair, Alfred P. Southwick, was a dentist whose invention came soon after the patent for the dental chair, credited to Waldo Hanchett in 1848. While 75 percent of adults experience some degree of dental anxiety, it is believed that between 5 and 10 percent suffer from a genuine dental phobia.
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