The Effect of Using a Camouflaged Dental Syringe on Children's Anxiety and Behavioral Pain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Seeing a dental syringe can be terrifying, especially for young children, and hiding it during local anesthesia (LA) administration can sometimes be challenging for the pediatric dentist.

Objective

To assess the effect of a camouflaged dental syringe on children's anxiety and behavioral pain in comparison to the traditional dental syringe during local anesthesia administration in pediatric patients.

Materials and methods

This randomized clinical trial included cooperative and healthy 6- to 10-year-old children scheduled for non-urgent dental treatment that required buccal infiltration anesthesia (BIA) in the maxillary arch. The subjects were randomized into either the test or the control groups. In the test group, subjects received BIA using the camouflaged

SUBMITTER: Bagher SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10767613 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature