Assessment of the effect of parental presence in dental operatory on the behavior of children aged 4–7 years | Zendy

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Assessment of the effect of parental presence in dental operatory on the behavior of children aged 4–7 years

Author(s) -

Shilpa Ahuja,

Kapil Gandhi,

Ritika Malhotra,

Rishabh Kapoor,

Shraddha Maywad,

Geetika Datta

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of indian society of pedodontics and preventive dentistry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378

H-Index - 33

eISSN - 1998-3905

pISSN - 0970-4388

DOI - 10.4103/jisppd.jisppd_238_17

Subject(s) - anxiety , significant difference , chi square test , medicine , rating scale , psychology , dentistry , developmental psychology , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics

Child presents a unique challenge to accept a dental treatment, and such a challenge gets modified by the presence or the absence of a parent in the operatory. Many dentists have reportedly and controversially used parental separation anxiety as a tool to control behavior of an uncooperative child and also to deliver quality dental treatment in young children. But is the parental separation beneficial for dentist to gain child cooperation?

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