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Training Program To Improve Estimation Of Patients' Periodontal Pain Experience, Yoon Jeong Kim
Training Program To Improve Estimation Of Patients' Periodontal Pain Experience, Yoon Jeong Kim
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Background: The purpose of this study was to determine if periodontal residents could enhance their ability to appraise the pain levels experienced by their patients from probing, using Visual Analog Scale (VAS) to record pain. We hypothesized that with increasing experience by repeated comparisons of the patients' VAS pain ratings with independent ratings by the residents, they would improve their ability to appraise their patients' pain experiences.
Methods: For each of three periodontal residents, 40 consecutive periodontitis patients were asked to express the degree of pain they experienced during the probing. Independently, the residents rated the pain level they perceived …