Dental Anxiety and Caries Experience in Patients from 7 to 12 Years Old
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Introduction: Dental anxiety has been related to caries experience, as anxiety may lead to avoidance behaviours towards dental care. Objective: To compare caries experience according to the level of dental anxiety in a paediatric population. Materials and methods: We investigated the association between dental anxiety and caries experience measured by the Decayed, Missing and Filled Teeth (dmft) Index in a sample of children (n=110) between 7 and 12 years of age who attended dental consultations at four health care centres in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area. During the dental consultation, the patients were clinically inspected and the DMFT index (decayed, missing and filled) was recorded. Then, they were assessed with the Corah’s Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) according to which they were classified into two groups: a group without dental anxiety (4 to 8 points) and a group with dental anxiety (9 to 20 points). The means of the DMFT index, as well as its individual components, were obtained and the results were compared between the groups with Student's t- and Chi-squared statistical tests. Results: Significant differences were found between the groups when analysing the ‘decayed teeth’ component (p<0.05), with a greater number of decayed teeth in the group with dental anxiety. Conclusions: Higher scores on the ‘decayed teeth’ component of the dmft were found in children with dental anxiety compared to children without dental anxiety.
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