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 .
Trajectories of dental anxiety in a birth cohort.
OBJECTIVE To examine predictors of dental anxiety trajectories in a longitudinal study of New Zeal and ers . METHODS Prospect i ve study of a complete birth cohort born in 1972/73 in Dunedin , New Zeal and , with dental anxiety scale ( DAS ) scores and dental utilization determined at ages 15 , 18 , 26 and 32 years . Personality traits were assessed at a superfactor and ( more fine-grained ) subscale level via the Multidimensional Personality Question naire at age 18 years . Group-based trajectory analysis was used to identify dental anxiety trajectories . RESULTS DAS scores from at least three assessment s were available for 828 participants . Six dental anxiety trajectories were observed : stable nonanxious low ( 39.6 % ) ; stable nonanxious medium ( 37.9 % ) ; recovery ( 1.6 % ) ; adult-onset anxious ( 7.7 % ) ; stable anxious ( 7.2 % ) and adolescent-onset anxious ( 5.9 % ) . Multivariate analysis showed that males and those with higher DMFS at age 15 years were more likely to be in the stable nonanxious low trajectory group . Membership of the stable nonanxious medium group was predicted by the dental caries experience at age 15 years . Participants who had lost one or more teeth between ages 26 and 32 years had almost twice the relative risk for membership of the adult-onset anxious group . Personality traits predicted group membership . Specifically , high scorers ( via median split ) on the ' stress reaction ' subscale had over twice the risk of being in the stable anxious group ; low scorers on the traditionalism subscale were more likely to be members of the recovery trajectory group ; and high scorers on the ' social closeness ' subscale had half the risk of being in the stable anxious group . Dental caries experience at age 5 years was also a predictor for the stable anxious group . Membership of the late-adolescent-onset anxious group was predicted by higher dental caries experience by age 15 years , but none of the other predictors was significant . CONCLUSION Six discrete trajectories of dental anxiety have been observed . Some trajectories ( totalling more than 90 % of the cohort ) had clear associations with external influences , but others were more strongly associated with characteristics such as personality traits . A mix of both influences was observed with only the stable anxious dental anxiety trajectory
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 .