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Sedation Versus General Anesthesia Dental Behavior Management in Children:Sedation Versus General Anesthesia
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S Saedi   , S r Motamedian * 1, K Khosraviani , F Gholipour , M Asadi , Ma Rozegar |
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Abstract: (14728 Views) |
| Dental anxiety is one the most important reasons preventing children to enjoy dental services. Several methods can be applied in order to reduce dental anxiety and manage children’s behavior. Both dentists and parents mostly prefer not to use medications. However to treat anxious children, those with systemic disease or movement disorders, sedation or general anesthesia can be beneficial. In this review, both sedation and general anesthesia has been described and the literature was searched for studies comparing these methods. We did not find any randomized clinical trials comparing general anesthesia to sedation for the provision of dental care in children. There were a few publications comparing any form of sedation to GA using other methodologies. We proposed some suggestion for designing a precise randomized clinical trial |
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| Keywords: pediatric dentistry, behavior management, sedation, general anesthesia |
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Type of Study: case report |
Subject:
restorative dentistry
Received: 2013/02/24 | Accepted: 2013/03/17 | Published: 2013/03/17
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