Abstract
Resumen en: Objective: To determine the different behavior management techniques employed by dentists in Nigeria for their child patients. Method: One hundred and fi...
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INTRODUCTIONAll patients, exhibit some form of anxiety or fear when about to receive dental care
Children and young adults, and all patients, exhibit some form of anxiety or fear when about to receive dental care
Forty-four (34.9%) of all the respondents rated the child patients they had treated as uncooperative with no significant difference across gender, age groups and number of years post graduation (p=0.86, 0.93 and 0.48 respectively) (Table 2)
Summary
All patients, exhibit some form of anxiety or fear when about to receive dental care. Effective behavior management techniques can help alleviate the patient’s fear or anxiety, an integral part of any dental practice that incorporates the care of children. Many factors have been proposed as contributory to children’s anxiety about dental procedures These include the dental clinic environment, equipments, past dental treatment experience and the attitude of dental staff. Various behavior management strategies are being practiced to address these causative factors These include verbal and nonverbal communication, tell-show-do (TSD), distraction, presence or absence of parents in the surgery, modeling, audio visual aids, positive reinforcement, physical restraint, hand over mouth exercise (HOME), sedation and general anesthesia. This study was carried out to determine the behavior management techniques employed by dentists in Nigeria to aid their child patients to cope with dental treatment and to suggest ways in improving behavioral management strategies used in the dental clinic settings. Descriptive statistics, chi square and t-test were used to compare respondents’ age groups, gender and type of BMT at p
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