Open AccessAssessment of the effect of parental presence in dental operatory on the behavior of children aged 4–7 years
Author(s) -
Shilpa Ahuja,
Kapil Gandhi,
Rashmi Malhotra,
Rishabh Kapoor,
Shraddha Maywad,
Geetika Datta
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of the indian society of pedodontics and preventive dentistry/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?