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Does Dental Fear in Children Predict Untreated Dental Caries? An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study
Despite free health care services in Saudi Arabia, the prevalence of caries in children is substantially greater in comparison to other high-income countries. Dental fear in children may be an important issue that needs attention. Therefore, the aim was to investigate the role of dental fear in pred...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8151813/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34066175 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8050382 |
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author | Panda, Suman Quadri, Mir Faeq Ali Hadi, Imtinan H. Jably, Rafaa M. Hamzi, Aisha M. Jafer, Mohammed A. |
author_facet | Panda, Suman Quadri, Mir Faeq Ali Hadi, Imtinan H. Jably, Rafaa M. Hamzi, Aisha M. Jafer, Mohammed A. |
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description | Despite free health care services in Saudi Arabia, the prevalence of caries in children is substantially greater in comparison to other high-income countries. Dental fear in children may be an important issue that needs attention. Therefore, the aim was to investigate the role of dental fear in predicting untreated dental caries in schoolchildren. This analytical cross-sectional study included children aged 8–10 years residing in Saudi Arabia. Dental status via oral examinations was surveyed with the WHO standardized chart and the Children Fear Survey Schedule—Dental Subscale was used to score dental fear. Descriptive, binary, and multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed to report the findings at 5% statistical significance. Overall, there were 798 schoolchildren with an average fear score of 36. Nearly 70.4% reported fear of someone examining their mouth. About 76.9% had at least one carious tooth in their oral cavity. Children with dental fear were 1.8 times (OR = 1.80; 95% CI = 1.26, 2.56) more likely to have at least one untreated carious tooth in their oral cavity than those who did not express fear during oral examinations and dental procedures. Thus, the current study concludes that fear of dentists and dental treatment procedures successfully predicts untreated carious teeth in schoolchildren. |
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spelling | pubmed-81518132021-05-27 Does Dental Fear in Children Predict Untreated Dental Caries? An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study Panda, Suman Quadri, Mir Faeq Ali Hadi, Imtinan H. Jably, Rafaa M. Hamzi, Aisha M. Jafer, Mohammed A. Children (Basel) Article Despite free health care services in Saudi Arabia, the prevalence of caries in children is substantially greater in comparison to other high-income countries. Dental fear in children may be an important issue that needs attention. Therefore, the aim was to investigate the role of dental fear in predicting untreated dental caries in schoolchildren. This analytical cross-sectional study included children aged 8–10 years residing in Saudi Arabia. Dental status via oral examinations was surveyed with the WHO standardized chart and the Children Fear Survey Schedule—Dental Subscale was used to score dental fear. Descriptive, binary, and multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed to report the findings at 5% statistical significance. Overall, there were 798 schoolchildren with an average fear score of 36. Nearly 70.4% reported fear of someone examining their mouth. About 76.9% had at least one carious tooth in their oral cavity. Children with dental fear were 1.8 times (OR = 1.80; 95% CI = 1.26, 2.56) more likely to have at least one untreated carious tooth in their oral cavity than those who did not express fear during oral examinations and dental procedures. Thus, the current study concludes that fear of dentists and dental treatment procedures successfully predicts untreated carious teeth in schoolchildren. MDPI 2021-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8151813/ /pubmed/34066175 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8050382 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Panda, Suman Quadri, Mir Faeq Ali Hadi, Imtinan H. Jably, Rafaa M. Hamzi, Aisha M. Jafer, Mohammed A. Does Dental Fear in Children Predict Untreated Dental Caries? An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study |
title | Does Dental Fear in Children Predict Untreated Dental Caries? An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full | Does Dental Fear in Children Predict Untreated Dental Caries? An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study |
title_fullStr | Does Dental Fear in Children Predict Untreated Dental Caries? An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Does Dental Fear in Children Predict Untreated Dental Caries? An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study |
title_short | Does Dental Fear in Children Predict Untreated Dental Caries? An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study |
title_sort | does dental fear in children predict untreated dental caries? an analytical cross-sectional study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8151813/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34066175 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8050382 |
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