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 .
Acceptability of different caries management methods for primary molars in a RCT.
BACKGROUND More conservative techniques for managing dental caries including ' partial ' and ' no caries removal ' have been increasingly of interest . AIM To compare children 's  behaviour and pain perception , also technique acceptability ( parents and dentists ) , when approximal dentinal lesions ( ICDAS 3 - 5 ) in primary molars ( 3 - 8-year-olds ) were managed with three treatment strategies ; conventional restorations ( CR ) , hall technique ( HT ) , and non-restorative caries treatment ( N RCT ) . DESIGN Secondary care-based , three-arm parallel-group , r and omised controlled trial , with 169 participants treated by 12 dentists . OUTCOME MEASURES child 's pain perception ( Visual Analogue Scale of Faces ) ; behaviour ( Frankl scale ) ; and parents ' and dentists ' treatment opinions ( 5-point Likert scales ) . RESULTS Children showed more negative behaviour in the CR group ( 37 % ) compared to N RCT ( 21 % ) and HT ( 13 % ) ( P = 0.047 , CI = 0.41 to 0.52 ) . Pain intensity was rated ' very low ' or ' low ' in 88 % N RCT , 81 % HT , and 72 % CR ( P = 0.11 , CI = 0.10 to 0.12 ) . N RCT and HT were ' very easy ' or ' easy ' to perform for > 77 % of dentists , compared to 50 % in CR group ( P < 0.000 ) . There were no statistically significant differences in parents ' rating of their child 's level of comfort ( P = 0.46 , CI = 0.45 to 0.48 ) . CONCLUSIONS Dentists reported more negative behaviour in CR group . For all techniques , children 's pain perception and dentist/parent acceptability were similar
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 .