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Effect of AI-Supported Child-Friendly Communication on Dental Anxiety in Pediatric Patients

RECRUITINGN/ASponsored by Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Actively Recruiting
PhaseN/A
SponsorÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Started2025-10-15
Est. completion2026-01
Eligibility
Age7 Years – 12 Years
Healthy vol.Accepted
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NCT07133919

Summary

This study compares the effects of traditional behavior management techniques and AI-assisted child-friendly communication on dental anxiety, physiological stress, and pain perception during local anesthesia in healthy children aged 6-12. The aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of AI-supported communication tools in reducing anxiety and improving comfort in pediatric dental treatments, potentially enhancing clinical outcomes and advancing technology use in pediatric dentistry.

Eligibility

Age: 7 Years – 12 YearsHealthy volunteers accepted
Inclusion Criteria:

* Children volunteers and their parents/legal guardians who have read and signed the informed consent form and agreed to participate in the study
* Systemically healthy children aged 6-12 years in the mixed dentition period
* Children requiring restorative dental procedures (including pulpotomy, pulp capping, or composite restorations) on mandibular teeth under inferior alveolar nerve block local anesthesia
* Children who are attending their first dental visit and demonstrate behavior rated as 2 (negative) or 3 (positive) according to the Frankl Behavior Rating Scale (Categories: 1 - definitely negative; 2 - negative; 3 - positive; 4 - definitely positive) Behaviors will be categorized as positive (+) or negative (-) based on the Frankl Behavior Rating Scale (Wright's modification)
* Children receiving local anesthesia for the first time

Exclusion Criteria:

* Children volunteers and their parents/legal guardians who read the informed consent form but declined to participate in the study
* Children with systemic diseases requiring continuous medication
* Children with mental or cognitive impairments, as well as those with visual or hearing disabilities
* Children who, after oral prophylaxis at the first visit, exhibit "definitely negative" (Frankl 1) or "definitely positive" (Frankl 4) behavior according to the Frankl Behavior Rating Scale
* Children with previous experience of local anesthesia

Conditions5

AnxietyCaries,DentalDental AnxietyInferior Alveolar Nerve BlockLocal Anesthesia

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