Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice
Volume 5, Issue 3 , Pages 143-144, September 2005

Dental fear in children may be related to previous pain experience during dental treatment

Associate Professor and Cahir, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

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

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PII: S1532-3382(05)00106-5

doi:10.1016/j.jebdp.2005.06.018

Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice
Volume 5, Issue 3 , Pages 143-144, September 2005

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