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Objectives: while great advances have been made in the field of pediatric dentistry, creating a friendly relationship with pediatric patients and getting them to readily accept dental treatment and cooperate remains challenging. Cooperation by children can affect the quality of dental visit and the required time for the treatment. Dentists' attire could be one of the factors that significantly affect children's cooperation. The aim of this study was to assess children's preferences towards dentists' attire and to determine the influence of its design, color, and other factors on treatment acceptance
Methods: a total of 103 children aged between 6-12 years were randomly divided into three groups [68 children in two study groups and 35 children in one control group]. The children were examined by the pediatric dentists wearing different attires. Two questionnaires were designed; one was supposed to be answered by the parents before the dental visit and one by the children after the visit
Results: the majority of children preferred the shirts that were adorned with Winnie the Pooh, while the treatment acceptance was not significantly different between the groups. Sex, age, number of family members, birth order, patient's personality type, and parents' educational level had no significant impact on treatment acceptance
Conclusion: although the attire design did not significantly affect treatment acceptance, it helped to establish a good relationship with pediatric patients in their first visit. The results help pediatric dentists choose attire that are better received by pediatric patients
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Successful pediatric dentistry depends not only on the dentist's technical skills, but also on his/her ability to acquire and maintain a the child's cooperation. The correction of dentist' action in this area affects the view of parents and increases the quality of dental services. The objective of this study was to evaluate the attitudes of general dentists toward methods of controlling pediatrics' behavior in Isfahan. This study was descriptive, analytic, and cross-sectional. For this research, 100 general dentists of Isfahan city were selected with simple random sampling technique and were asked to complete the questionnaire which was included four different management techniques. The data were analyzed with t-test, Pearson's correlation, ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis. The methods accepted by dentists were Tell-Show-Do [4.0 +/- 0.5], Voice control [3.5 +/- 0.4], active restraint [3.0 +/- 0.5] and Hand-Over-Mouth [2.9 +/- 0.5] respectively. The mean score of female dentists' attitudes was more toward the method of active restraint and less toward Hand-Over-Mouth technique. Also the average score of middle aged dentists' attitudes toward Voice Control method was less than young dentists and toward Hand-Over-Mouth was higher. The general dentists with more number of pediatric patients had less consent on the method of Hand-Over-Mouth [P=0.004] and active restraint [P=0.034]. There were significant correlation between attitude of general dentists toward behavior management techniques with age, gender, clinical experience and the number of pediatric patients. General dentists have fewer tendencies to aggressively behavior management techniques.