A Comparative Assessment of Three Different Behaviour Modification Techniques using Physiological & Psychological Parameters- An Clinical Study

Not Applicable

Completed

Conditions: Health Condition 1: K029- Dental caries, unspecified

Registration Number: CTRI/2023/06/054043

Lead Sponsor: Mukesh Kumar Dey

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 88

Inclusion Criteria

1. Children within age group of 4-11 years, having their first dental visit.

2. Children who fall under the American Society of Anaesthesiology (ASA) category I (defined as a normal healthy patient).

3. Children and parents who are willing to participate in the study.

4. Children without any systemic and mental disorders.

5. Children who fall under Wright’s modification of Frankl’s behaviour rating (FBR) scale of 2 (-) or 3 (+), which includes patients with either negative or positive attitude respectively.22

6. A child having a carious cavity lesion, in one of the primary molars, requiring restoration without the administration of local anaesthesia

Exclusion Criteria

1. Children with special healthcare needs.

2. Negative history of any particular underlying disease.

3. Children or parents who refused to participate in the study.

4. Children having pain or who required local anaesthesia administration for treatment.

5. Emergency need such as drainage of abscess or extraction.

6. Pulpal exposure of tooth during caries removal.

7. Children whose behaviour could be rated as definitely positive (++) or definitely negative (--), according to Wright’s modification of Frankl’s behaviour rating scale.

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Expected outcome in general, is to help combat dental anxiety among children, so that they grow into adults who arent fearful of getting any dental treatment done on themselves in the future, upon requirement.Timepoint: Baseline

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Expectation is to develop a society of individuals who do not fear the dental environment, so as to have lower prevelance of dental problems in the future.Timepoint: 8 weeks