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Abstract
Dental anxiety has been always considered as an obstacle facing pediatric dentists, and compromising both the quality and efficacy of the dental treatment provided. Therefore, the main goal of a pediatric dentist is to reduce or eliminate the child’s dental anxiety. Management of child’s dental anxiety can be done either non-pharmacologically or pharmacologically, or by using a combination of both. Non-pharmacological management techniques are more favored by both professionals and parents for eliminating the risks associated with pharmacological interventions. Distraction is one of the non-pharmacological behavior management techniques commonly used by pediatric dentists, especially when carrying out painful dental procedures to withdraw the patient’s attention from unpleasant stimuli. The ideal distractor requires optimal amount of attention involving multiple sensory modalities to ensure patient’s participation, and compete with the noxious signals. Virtual reality (VR) glasses are one of the types of audiovisual distraction tools, consisting of head-mounted display and headphones. Literature is still investigating the effectiveness of the application of VR glasses distraction in pediatric dental setting. This study was designed to evaluate and compare the effect of VR glasses distraction to the conventional behavior management techniques on child’s dental anxiety during pulpotomy treatment in two different age groups preschoolers aging 4 to 5 years and schoolers aging 6 to 8 years.
The study was a randomized controlled clinical trial with four parallel groups. It was set up and recorded according to the CONSORT guidelines. It was carried out in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University and the Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University. The approval of research ethics committee in the Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University was