Neoteric Desensitization Among Five-Seven Year Old Children- A Novel Behaviour Modification Technique

Aims Fear amp anxiety towards dentistry has been a major hurdle in the delivery of treatment.But by knowing the child psychology helps to eliminate this fear. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of neoteric desensitization among five ndashseven year old children and compare it with tell show do.Materials amp Methods Fifty fearful children visiting dentist for first time were selected amp anxiety was assessed using Chotta-Bheem Chutkiscale. This age group was selected as they are in the pre-operative period of cognition because during this period children learn through imitation and play. They begin to use reasoning however its mainly intuitive instead of logical.Then they are randomly allocated into 2.Group 1 neoteric desensitizationamp Group 2 Tell Show Do.Neoteric desensitization group1 is based on cognition in which child was allowed to do procedures on dental imitating toy using dental instruments like micromotor and scalers.In group2 Tell Show Do was employed.Then non-invasive procedures were performed on children of both groups. Again anxiety assessed using the same scale. MannndashWhitney Utest was used to compare the anxiety level of two groups depending on their mean ranks.Plt 0.05 was considered statistically significant.Results The data analysedshowed that there was a statistically significant reduction of anxiety in neoteric desensitization group compared to TSD.Conclusion Neoteric desensitization is a novel technique worth practicing in pedodontics.