title: Psychosocial Effects of Fractured Anterior Teeth among Rural Children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the study is to determine how rural children view children with visible incisor fracture.
  
  
  METHODS
  Class 7 (aged 11-12 years) and class 10 (aged 14-15 years) schoolchildren (the participants) were invited to make a social judgment about the color photograph of two children (the subjects). Participants were randomly allocated either (i) pictures of children without incisor fracture or (ii) pictures of the same children whose photographs had been digitally modified to visible incisor fracture. Using a child-centered questionnaire, participants rated subjects using a four-point Likert scale for three negative and six positive attributes. Total attribute scores were tested for significant differences, according to whether the subject had visible incisor fracture or not, using multivariate analysis of variance (p < 0.05).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Both class 7 and 10 children rated subjects with visible incisor fracture more negatively than the subjects without incisor fracture. Female participants of class 10 have rated the male subject with incisor fracture significantly negatively (p < 0.01) than male subject without incisor fracture. How to cite this article: Venkatesan R, Naveen M, Teja R, Paulindraraj S, Vallabhaneni SK, Arumugam SB. Psychosocial Effects of Fractured Anterior Teeth among Rural Children. Int J Clin Pediatr Dent 2016;9(2):128-130.
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Indira Gandhi Institute of Dental Sciences, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University, Puducherry, India.
authors.forename: Ramesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Venkatesan
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Dentist, Private Practice, Villupuram, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: Mohan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Naveen
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, SIBAR Institute of Dental Sciences, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Ravi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Teja
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Madha Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: Shankar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Paulindraraj
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, SIBAR Institute of Dental Sciences, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Sai K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Vallabhaneni
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Indira Gandhi Institute of Dental Sciences, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University, Puducherry, India.
authors.forename: Selva B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Arumugam
keywords: Attribute; Fracture; Psychosocial; Trauma.