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A Comparison of Two Pain Scales in the Assessment of Dental Pain in East Delhi Children

Author(s) -

Amit Khatri,

Namita Kalra

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

isrn dentistry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2090-438X

pISSN - 2090-4371

DOI - 10.5402/2012/247351

Subject(s) - visual analogue scale , pain perception , toothache , rating scale , medicine , physical therapy , pain management , pain assessment , scale (ratio) , pain scale , cross sectional study , audiology , dentistry , psychology , developmental psychology , geography , cartography , pathology

Pain is the most common symptom of oral diseases. Pain perception in children is highly variable and unreliable due to poor communication. Therefore we designed a study to compare pain measurement techniques, that is, visual analogue scale (VAS) and Wong-Baker faces pain rating scale (WBFPS) among Delhi children aged 3 to 14 years undergoing dental extraction. Method . A cross-sectional study was conducted on 180 patients aged 3 to 14 years who had undergone dental extraction. Children were assessed for their pain sensitivity using visual analogue scale (VAS) and Wong-Baker faces pain rating scale (WBFPS ). Result and Conclusion . Pain threshold tends to decline, and the self-management of pain becomes more effective with increasing age. Genderwise result shows that communication ability of boys and girls is similar in all age groups.

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