Preferences and their correlation between children and their parents' attitudes towards non-pharmacological behaviour guidance techniques - A cross-sectional study.

INTRODUCTION: Dental treatment for children requires the use of behaviour guidance techniques (BGTs), which are used in the dental office to make children cope with dental treatment. AIM: Evaluate how children and parents felt towards BGTs used in a dental office, by attitude meter and to correlate them. MATERIALS AND METHOD: Children (200) from 7-17 years and their parents were selected randomly to participate in the study. Each child and parent was asked to watch four video scenes of live BGTs, which include Tell Show Do (TSD), Modeling, Reward system, and Hand holding. A questionnaire collected demographic data, and their expressive attitudes were assessed using Line of favour (LOF) scale and Kruskal-Wallis Test. RESULTS: Most preferred BGTs for Group I was modeling, Group II Reward, Group III Tell Show Do, and Group IV was Modeling, with a mean score of 5.95, 6.04, 5.57, and 5.78, respectively. Gender wise preferences, 32% of boys and 34% of girls preferred modeling in Group I, whereas, in Group II, 20% of boys and 21% of girls preferred reward, respectively. Chi-square test revealed that there is no significant difference between the groups and gender for the preference of BGTs in Group I (P=0.893) and Group II (P=0.592). There was no significant correlation between preferences of children and their parents. CONCLUSION: Modeling was the most preferred BGT for primary school children and parents of High school children. A reward was the most preferred BGT for high school children. TSD was the most preferred BGT for parents of primary school children.

Clinical and Radiographic Success of Three Adhesive Restorative Materials in Primary Molar Proximal Lesions: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

AIM: The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the clinical and radiographic success of primary molar proximal lesions in 4-8 years children restored with three adhesive restorative materials followed up for 12 months. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was carried out on 102 primary molars of 51 children in the age range of 4-8 years. In all the participants, Class II lesions were restored and randomly allocated into three material groups as giomer group, nano-ionomer group, and light-cured glass-ionomer cement (LC-GIC) group based on the restorative material used. All the restorations were evaluated and scored according to federation dentaire internationale (FDI) criteria for clinical and radiographic success rate at 3, 6, and 12 months' interval. Data were formulated in a predesigned format and were subjected to statistical analysis using the Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test. RESULTS: There was no statistically significant difference observed among the restorative material groups to all the properties of FDI criteria. The overall success rates of restorative materials at 3, 6, and 12 months' interval were as follows: giomer - 100%, 100%, and 94.1%; nano-ionomer - 97%, 94%, and 85.3%; and LC-GIC - 100%, 94%, and 88.2%. CONCLUSION: The highest clinical success rate was found for the giomer group followed by LC-GIC group and the least for the nano-ionomer group, whereas the highest radiographic success rate was found for giomer as well as LC-GIC group and the least for nano-ionomer group.