Dental fear and anxiety is a significant issue that affects pediatric patients and creates challenges in oral health management. Considering that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, along with its associated sanitary regime, social distancing measures and nationwide quarantines, could itself induce public fears, including in children, it is of great interest to explore whether this situation and the necessity of reorganizing dental care could potentially affect the emotional state of pediatric patients facing a need for urgent dental intervention
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
82
pulp and restorative therapy
Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University
Alexandria, Egypt
RECRUITINGDental anxiety level
Assessment will performed by using Facial image scale (FIS)It consists of 5 faces ranging from very happy to very unhappy. At the beginning, the 5 faces have been explained to all children and they were asked to point to the face which best describes how he/she felt at the moment
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 3 months
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