title: Pediatric dental chair vs. traditional dental chair: a pediatric dentist's poll.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Proper positioning of the child patient, can not only have positive ramifications for the operator's posture, comfort, and career longevity - it can also lead to better treatment and increased productivity. The aim of the survey questionnaire was to assess the utilization, need, and attitude concerning dental chairs among pediatric dentist while working on and managing the child patient.
  
  
  METHODS
  The questions were structured using adobe forms central online software, regarding the user-friendliness of pediatric dental chair vs. traditional adult dental chair available in the market.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Our result shows that out of 337 respondents, 79% worked on pediatric dental chair, whereas 21% had no experience of it. Of these 79% pediatric dentist, 48% preferred pediatric dental chair. But pediatric dental problem still has certain disadvantages like higher cost, leg space problem, lower availability, etc.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  During the research it was found that ergonomics and usability issues were the main problems. Thus, pediatric dental chair is not so popular in the current scenario. This study allowed for general ideas for the improvement of dental chairs and thus improved dental chair would fill the gap in the current scenario.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Modern Dental College and Research Centre, Indore, India.
authors.forename: Khushboo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Barjatya
authors.forename: Ankur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vatsal
authors.forename: Halaswamy V
authors.initials: HV
authors.lastname: Kambalimath
authors.forename: Vinay Kumar
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Kulkarni
authors.forename: Naveen Banda
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Reddy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002648:Child; D003770:Dental Offices; D006804:Ergonomics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007374:Interior Design and Furnishings; D008297:Male; D056888:Patient Positioning; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires