Dental Fear of Children and Its Relationship with Caries Experience Dental Fear and Dental Caries
Journal of Dental School,
Vol. 39 No. 1 (2021),
26 January 2022
,
Page 28-32
https://doi.org/10.22037/jds.v39i1.35702
Abstract
Objectives The aim of this study was to assess dental fear and its relationship with demographic information and dental caries experience in 6 to 12-year-old children residing in Urmia city in 2020.
Methods In this cross-sectional study, 185 children referred to the Pediatrics Department of Alborz Dental Clinic were included. The Children's Fear Survey Schedule-Dental Subscale (CFSS-DS) was used to evaluate dental fear experience of children. Demographic characteristics including sex, gender, parents’ educational level and birth order were also recorded. Intraoral examination was performed by a pedodontist, and dental caries experience was recorded based on the DMFT index. The data were analyzed by the Chi-square and logistic regression test using SPSS version 16.0.
Results Of 185 children, 83 were boys and 102 were girls; 136 participants had no dental fear while 49 had dental fear. The prevalence of dental fear was 26.48%. There were significant correlations between children's age (P=0.006) and birth order (P= 0.007) with their dental fear. But there was no significant correlation between gender or father’s educational level with dental fear experience (P=0.812), or dmft/DMFT index (P=0.128). Also, dental injection (71%) and drilling (49%) followed by the noise of drilling (45%) caused the highest mean fear among children.
Conclusion The findings of the present study suggest that dental fear experience is probably not correlated with caries experience in 6 to 12-year-old children.
- Child
- Dental Anxiety
- Dental Caries
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