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Objectives: University students's oral health care practice and oral health status arevery important. Because its affect their systemic disease, so as to have confidence, and tobe eager to study. However if they feel dental fear, they avoid dental treatment. It ismiss opportunities of early treatment and prevention treatment and have little effect ondental treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors influencing dentalfear of university students to reduce their dental fear. Methods: A total of 366 self-administered questionnaires were collected from universitystudent in Cheon-an. To investigate the factors influencing dental fear of universitystudents, t-test, one-way ANOVA, correlation analysis, linear regression analysis werecarried out by using SPSS ver. 18.0Results: University students feel the most fear of specific dental stimuli. Especially,‘Feeling the needle injected’. University Students felt dental fear in order of ‘fear ofspecific dental stimuli’, ‘physiologic arousal’, ‘avoidance fear’. ‘Feeling the needle injected’,they felt severe dental fear. ‘My muscles become tense’ of Symptoms they feel dental fearwas the most frequent Sex affects avoidance fear, physiologic arousal, fear of specificdental stimuli and dental fear. Femal feel more its than male. The time since last dentalclinic visit affects physiologic arousal, fear of specific dental stimuli and dental fear. Group do not visit the dental clinic within a year feel more its than others. Conclusions: To reduce dental fear in university students, it is necessary to makethem visit dental clinics frequently and dental staffs consider their sex. Therefore,Department of dental hygiene and dentistry must be added the management of dentalfear of the curriculum. In addition, it must be emphasized that to visit dental clinics frequently for university students.