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Child Response Towards Viewing Needle During Anesthetic Injection, Waleerat Sukarawan, Issaya Boonadulyarat, Rujira Puanaiyaka
Child Response Towards Viewing Needle During Anesthetic Injection, Waleerat Sukarawan, Issaya Boonadulyarat, Rujira Puanaiyaka
Chulalongkorn University Dental Journal
Objective To compare child response during local anesthetic injection between viewing and non-viewing needle groups by rating the behaviors and change in heart rate. Materials and methods Sixty pre-school children were equally divided into non-viewing and viewing needle group. Video observations of the subjects' behavior during local anesthesia injection were rated using modified Franklûs behavioral scale. The differences in behavioral rating between groups were tested by Fisher's exact test. Change in heart rate in each subject was analyzed by Mann-Whitney test. Characteristics of subjects were analyzed using Chi-square test or Fisher's exact test. All statistic tests were done at 95 …