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Volume7, Issue1

ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FIRST DENTAL VISIT AND PAIN IN CHILDREN -A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY

    SarojiniRamyaPillay . Jessy P Remmiya Mary Varghese

European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine, 2020, Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 1587-1596

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Abstract

Oral health is a vital part of overall infant health.An early age between 6 months to 12 months dental visit is important in rendering prevention,intervention and parental counselling regarding oral health. Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual potential tissue damage according to internal association for the study of pain. Aim of the study is to assess the association between age of the first dental visit and pain in children. A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted using the patient records from the Department of pedodontic, Saveetha Dental College,visited from February 2019 to February 2020.The children with first dental visit without the past dental history were collected and from which whosoever first visit with chief complaint of pain data were gathered . The collected Data was then subjected to statistical analysis using spss version 20.0.Overall prevalence of chief complaint of pain during first visit was (96.5%). Among first dental visit with pain about 47.2 % was seen in the age of 6-8 years while the least was (14.0%) seen at the age of 11-13 years.The results proved that many parents were unaware about the right age of the child first dental visit.Most of the parents bought their children to the dentist after their child experienced or suffered from pain.There is a need to raise awareness about the importance of oral health care of their children sensitively at the budding stage of life
Keywords:
    age children first dental visit Pain
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(2020). ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FIRST DENTAL VISIT AND PAIN IN CHILDREN -A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY. European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine, 7(1), 1587-1596.
SarojiniRamyaPillay .; Jessy P; Remmiya Mary Varghese. "ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FIRST DENTAL VISIT AND PAIN IN CHILDREN -A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY". European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine, 7, 1, 2020, 1587-1596.
(2020). 'ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FIRST DENTAL VISIT AND PAIN IN CHILDREN -A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY', European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine, 7(1), pp. 1587-1596.
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FIRST DENTAL VISIT AND PAIN IN CHILDREN -A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY. European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine, 2020; 7(1): 1587-1596.
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