Open AccessA novel Chotta Bheem–Chutki scale for dental anxiety determination in children
Author(s) -
Gunmeen Sadana,
Rashu Grover,
Manjul Mehra,
Sunil Gupta,
Jasmeet Kaur,
Sukhmani Sadana
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of international society of preventive and community dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.476
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2250-1002
pISSN - 2231-0762
DOI - 10.4103/2231-0762.183108
Subject(s) - anxiety , scale (ratio) , medicine , correlation , test (biology) , outpatient clinic , psychiatry , mathematics , paleontology , geometry , biology , physics , quantum mechanics
A potential problem in patient management in pediatric dentistry is dental anxiety among children. It is of paramount importance for pediatric dentists to identify an anxious child and review potential management options specific to every child. The aim of this study is to validate a newly devised Chotta Bheem-Chutki (CBC) pictorial scale and to compare this with Venham's pictorial scale (VPS) and facial image scale (FIS) to measure dental anxiety in young children during their first dental visit.