Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with its origin in Wuhan, China, has become one of the most deadly pandemics in the history of mankind. It has posed major public health challenge not just for China but almost every country around the globe. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the unprecedented pandemic of the novel coronavirus as a major public health emergency of international concern with attempts at preparing the corona vaccine by top biotechnology and pharma companies of the world. Objective: This study aimed to assess the level of knowledge and apprehension towards dental treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic among Indian subjects. Dentists too participated in the study. Method: The study population consisted of Indian subjects with a minimum qualification of high school. An online questionnaire was sent to a sample of 650 subjects both male and female in March 2020. The questionnaire was comprised of a series of questions about subjects’ demographic characteristics; their awareness of the COVID-19 and their perception towards dental treatment. Results: This study included a total of 650 aged 20-70 years (mean 36.9 years with a standard deviation of 10.5 years) participants. A total of 446 subjects responded to questionnaire. A total of 29.1% subjects had completed their masters, 52.2% had received knowledge of corona virus from news, and 30.5% had read about COVID-19 from official websites. A total of 71.3% participants showed reluctance in undertaking dental treatment during pandemic. The majority of participants (60.5%) believed that dental setups could be a potential source of infection of COVID-19 and thus avoided visiting dentists. Most of them (69.7%) adhered to medicines rather than getting dental treatment done. Most of them (96.6%) agreed not to hide any symptoms of COVID-19 from the dentist. 54.7% agreed to undergo a screening test for the virus. 93.7% participants refrained from cosmetic and esthetic procedures during pandemic and 54.7% believed that these unprecedented times would impact cost of dental procedures. Conclusions: Subjects were aware of COVID-19 symptoms, mode of transmission of the virus, screening test and in-home precautions/measures to be taken. However, subjects had limited comprehension of the extra precautionary measures that protect them during dental procedures. Most of them refrained from visiting dentists and avoided esthetic procedures.