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

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    • SarojiniRamyaPillay . 1
    • Jessy P 2
    • Remmiya Mary Varghese 3

    1 Saveetha Dental College and HospitalsSaveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Science Saveetha UniversityChennai-77

    2 Senior Lecturer Department of Pedodontics Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Science Saveetha UniversityChennai-77

    3 Department of Orthodontics Saveetha Dental College and HospitalsSaveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Science Saveetha UniversityChennai-77

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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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European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine
Volume 7, Issue 1
January 2020
Page 1587-1596
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., S., P, J., & Varghese, R. M. (2020). ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FIRST DENTAL VISIT AND PAIN IN CHILDREN -A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY. European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine, 7(1), 1587-1596.

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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.

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., S., P, J., Varghese, R. M. (2020). 'ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FIRST DENTAL VISIT AND PAIN IN CHILDREN -A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY', European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine, 7(1), pp. 1587-1596.

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., S., P, J., Varghese, R. M. 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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