Davey’s Model Considering a more diverse approach to learned fears, Davey (1989a) devel- oped a model for dental phobias and anxieties that suggests two explana- tions in which painful dental-related events may not lead to future fears of dental pain. Latent inhibition, he asserts, may moderate the conditioning process because a patient may have had several years of treateneny in the ab- fence of an aversive dental experience. With many Positive experiences be- tively. Moreover, if a painful experience establishes a CS-UCS (UCR) associ- ation, the strength of the CR depends on the patient's evaluation of the UCS (Davey, 1989a, 1989; Davey & Craigie, 1997), Pain may be experienced prior to root canal therapy when an injection of anesthesia is administered, However, the knowledge that having a root canal procedure should help to reestablish good oral health will moderate a Significant fear response (Davey, 1989a). The addition of this cognitive component to a dental fear model was novel relative to Mowrer’s theory and helped pave the way for more recent models related to fear of pain