Implementation of behaviour management techniques--how well accepted they are today.

ABSTRACT

Dynamic changes in society with working parents and smaller nuclear families have brought about a sea of changes in parental attitudes and anxieties towards their children. This has affected the perception and implementation of behaviour modification techniques by the dentist. Today, the significance of Tell Show Do technique and its efficiency in behaviour modification is questionable. Insistence of parents on conscious sedation is seen to be on the rise. This study aimed to assess the change in the utilization pattern of behaviour management techniques by pediatric dentists of Punjab in the past five years along with identification of change in parental attitude towards these techniques.