Effect of AI-Supported Child-Friendly Communication on Dental Anxiety in Pediatric Patients
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Conditions studied: Caries, Dental, Local Anesthesia, Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block, Dental Anxiety
In brief
This study compares the effects of traditional behavior management techniques and AI-assisted child-friendly communication on dental anxiety, physiological stress, and pain perception during local anesthesia in healthy children aged 6-12. The aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of AI-supported communication tools in reducing anxiety and improving comfort in pediatric dental treatments, potentially enhancing clinical outcomes and advancing technology use in pediatric dentistry.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT07133919
- Run by
- Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
- People needed
- 60
- Starts
- 2025-10-15
- Expected to finish
- 2026-01-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2025-12-24
Who can join
Age: 7 and older, up to 12. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Children volunteers and their parents/legal guardians who have read and signed the informed consent form and agreed to participate in the study
- Systemically healthy children aged 6-12 years in the mixed dentition period
- Children requiring restorative dental procedures (including pulpotomy, pulp capping, or composite restorations) on mandibular teeth under inferior alveolar nerve block local anesthesia
- Children who are attending their first dental visit and demonstrate behavior rated as 2 (negative) or 3 (positive) according to the Frankl Behavior Rating Scale (Categories: 1 - definitely negative; 2 - negative; 3 - positive; 4 - definitely positive) Behaviors will be categorized as positive (+) or negative (-) based on the Frankl Behavior Rating Scale (Wright's modification)
- Children receiving local anesthesia for the first time
You may not qualify if…
- Children volunteers and their parents/legal guardians who read the informed consent form but declined to participate in the study
- Children with systemic diseases requiring continuous medication
- Children with mental or cognitive impairments, as well as those with visual or hearing disabilities
- Children who, after oral prophylaxis at the first visit, exhibit "definitely negative" (Frankl 1) or "definitely positive" (Frankl 4) behavior according to the Frankl Behavior Rating Scale
- Children with previous experience of local anesthesia
Where it is running
- Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University — Çanakkale, Kepez, Turkey (Türkiye) (enrolling)
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