Can We Tune Our Pediatric Patients?
For the pedodontic team, a child's dental anxiety poses major management problems. Previously, wide variety of aversive techniques have been used with varying success rates to manage anxious child patients. The present trend advocates the use of nonaversive techniques like distraction in the management of anxious pediatric patients. So the aim of this study is to compare the effect of audio distraction with the normal set up operatory. Thirty patients of age between 4 and 8 years were included in the study. Each patient had gone through four dental visits. Anxiety was measured using Venham's picture test. The values obtained were tabulated and statistical analysis and concluded that audio distraction did decrease the level of anxiety in anxious pediatric dental patients to a significant level during the restorative procedure visit (3rd) and invasive procedure visit (4th).
Professor and Head, Department of Pedodontics, National Dental College and Hospital, Dera Bassi, Punjab, India.
Ritu
R
Jindal
Postgraduate Student, Department of Pedodontics, National Dental College and Hospital, Dera Bassi, Punjab, India.
Rajwinder
R
Kaur
Dental anxiety; Music.
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