With increased patient sophistication, awareness, and access to information, patient satisfaction will play a progressively more significant role in the health care arena. For those practitioners who care for children, parental satisfaction will likely become more important over time. Obtaining parental satisfaction will involve matching children’s oral health needs with the appropriate mode of treatment.

Our study included 45 children who met our inclusion criteria and for whom parents completed surveys. Because ours was a convenience sample, we wanted to verify that our sample was representative of all similar GA cases completed during our study period. Accordingly, sociodemographic data were collected on a random sample of 45 children who met [...]

The survey data for this study were obtained from the parents or legal guardians of children treated under GA at the University of North Carolina Children’s Hospital in Chapel Hill, NC. The child patients were referred from their general dentists or community dental clinics for assessment for treatment because of their young age, extensive dental [...]

Except for the occasional use of nitrous oxide/oxygen inhalation analgesia for the mildly anxious child, the overwhelming majority of pediatric dental patients can be treated in the conventional dental (Cyklokapron canadian is used for short-term control of bleeding in hemophiliacs, including dental extraction procedures) environment. Pharmacologic management may be essential during invasive dental procedures for [...]