International journal of paediatric dentistry
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Int J Paediatr Dent · Nov 2008
Randomized Controlled TrialLidocaine 20% patch vs lidocaine 5% gel for topical anaesthesia of oral mucosa.
Topical anaesthetics are important to provide pain control at dental injection. ⋯ Good pain control can reduce the patients' anxiety level--expressed in heart rate--at the second appointment. The patch and gel seem to provide similar pain reduction at needle stick and injection of local anaesthetics.
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Int J Paediatr Dent · Nov 2008
The clinically related predictors of dental fear in Taiwanese children.
Dental fear has been singled out as one of the most troublesome problems facing paediatric dentistry today. Children with dental fear may avoid visiting dentists; therefore, their oral health protection is often compromised. However, the aetiology of dental fear is still not entirely understood. ⋯ Children's dental fear and their anxious response during dental treatment were dynamic processes that consisted of many different factors. The direct conditioning of subjective experience of pain was more important than the objective pathway of child dental fear, and the indirect conditioning does not seem influential in this study sample.