Regarding pain , there was a trend for treatments without rotary instruments and local anesthesia to be less frequently reported as painful .
No statistical difference was found intragroup nor among treatments for OHRQoL. CONCLUSIONS Anxiety and pain are directly related with more invasive restorative treatments .
On the other h and , quality of life is not improved regardless of the restorative technique used .
BACKGROUND Despite the increasing number of studies evaluating patient reported outcome measures ( PROs ) , there is no clearness regarding which restorative treatment offers major benefits based on the pediatric patient perspective .
AIM To compare different restorative techniques in pediatric dentistry regarding patient-reported outcomes .
The influence of restorative treatment approaches and the use of local analgesia, on the children's discomfort.
AIM The aim is to investigate possible differences in discomfort during treatment with the atraumatic restorative treatment ( ART ) or the Conventional restorative method with and without local analgesia ( LA ) . METHODS The study group consisted of 6 and 7 year old children with no dental experience ( mean age 6.98 , SD + /- 0.52 ) r and omly divided into four treatment groups : Conventional method with and without LA and ART with and without LA . One or two proximal lesions in primary molars were treated . The heart rate and the behaviour ( Venham ) were measured . STATISTICS Statistical analysis was performed in SPSS version 10.0 . RESULTS In a first session 300 children were treated and 109 children for a second time in the same way as at the first visit . During the first session ART without LA gave the least discomfort while the Conventional method without LA gave the most discomfort . During the second treatment the least discomfort was observed with ART without LA and the most discomfort in the Conventional way with LA . CONCLUSION There is a constant preference for h and instruments ; the bur is increasingly accepted . The experience with LA is the reverse
Regarding pain , there was a trend for treatments without rotary instruments and local anesthesia to be less frequently reported as painful .
No statistical difference was found intragroup nor among treatments for OHRQoL. CONCLUSIONS Anxiety and pain are directly related with more invasive restorative treatments .
On the other h and , quality of life is not improved regardless of the restorative technique used .
BACKGROUND Despite the increasing number of studies evaluating patient reported outcome measures ( PROs ) , there is no clearness regarding which restorative treatment offers major benefits based on the pediatric patient perspective .
AIM To compare different restorative techniques in pediatric dentistry regarding patient-reported outcomes .