Dental fear in children may be related to previous pain experience during dental treatment
Original Article
Versloot J, Veerkamp JS, Hoogstraten J, Martens LC. Children's coping with pain during dental care. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 2004;32(6):456-61.
Level of Evidence
2b
Purpose
The purposes of the study were 3-fold:
1.To investigate the coping strategies that 11-year-old children use when they are in pain at the dentist and how they judge their effectiveness.
2.To study the extent to which the level of children's dental fear and their experience with pain at the dentist relates to their ability to cope and their choice of coping strategies.
3.To analyze the possible differences between subsamples of children with different levels of dental caries, expressed by decayed, missing because of caries, filled, surface (DMFS) index.
Source of Funding
Information not available.
Type of Study/Design
Cohort study
Associate Professor and Cahir, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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