Introduction: The objective of this study was to investigate the different factors that interplay leading to dental fear and anxiety, both dispositional and situational. It took interest in parental influence of a child’s DFA, particularly how parenting style, as categorized by Baumrind into Authoritative, Authoritarian, Permissive, would influence how a child behaves within the dental setting.Subjects and Methods 75 children aged between 4-6 years ,seeking dental treatment for the first time and accompanied by their parents participated in the study. The parents were asked to fill the Primary Caregivers Practices Report to determine their parenting style.The fear and behavior of the children within the dental visit was determined by the Clinical Anxiety Scale and Frankl Behaviour Rating Scale respectively.Results: The correlation was weak for parental styles with the child’s clinical anxiety both before and during dental treatment. The correlation was negative for the authoritative parenting style and positive for the authoritarian parenting style both before and during treatment. The permissive parenting style on the other hand showed positive correlation with the clinical anxiety score before treatment and a negative one during dental treatment. There was a weak correlation of self-reported parental style with the child’s behavior during the dental visit. Conclusions: Children of parents who employ more authoritative parenting practices will show less clinical anxiety both before and during the dental visit than children of parents which employ more authoritarian parenting practices. Children whose parents employed more permissive parenting practices showed less anxiety before treatment and more anxiety during treatment. Children of parents who employ more authoritative practices will tend to behave more positively during the dental visit than children whose parents employ more authoritarian or permissive parenting practices