Assessment of the effect of parental presence in dental operatory on the behavior of children aged 4-7 years

• Main Authors: Shilpa Ahuja (Author), Kapil Gandhi (Author), Ritika Malhotra (Author), Rishabh Kapoor (Author), Shraddha Maywad (Author), Geetika Datta (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Child presents a unique challenge to accept a dental treatment, and such a challenge gets modified by the presence or the absence of a parent in the operatory. Many dentists have reportedly and controversially used parental separation anxiety as a tool to control behavior of an uncoopera...