Young children's Oral Health-Related Quality of Life and dental fear after treatment under general anaesthesia: a randomized controlled trial.

During the past decade the research interest in Oral Health-Related Quality of Life (OHRQoL) has been prospering. This study was performed to test (using a randomized controlled trial design) the hypothesis that young children's OHRQoL improves after oral rehabilitation under general anaesthesia (GA). A further aim of this study was to explore whether dental fear also changes.

Dental fear, communication, and behavioural management problems in children referred for dental problems.

Background: Knowledge about the influence of the interaction between child, parent, and dentist and the referral pattern is very limited.

Aim: This study intended to assess to what extent the pathways of Rachman could clarify why a child is being referred to a specialist in paediatric dentistry and if other aspects in the interaction between child, parent, and dentist play a role in the referral.

Design: The referral letters of 500 children referred to a Special Dental Care Centre in Amsterdam were examined.

Stressful situations for toddlers: indications for dental anxiety?

Unlabelled: The present study was undertaken to examine if daily anxiety-provoking situations can predict dental anxiety in a toddler. Parents of 73 toddlers were sent 2 questionnaires: 1) the Dental Subscale of the Children's Fear Survey Schedule (CFSS-DS), and 2) the Inventory of Stressful Situations (ISS), a list of 16 questions developed to assess anxiety in daily stressful situations. This investigation was repeated one year later.