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Effect of Augmented Reality on Dental Anxiety and Pain Perception in Children

NCT06530654 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 96

Last updated 2025-08-07

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Summary

The aim of this study is to reduce dental anxiety in children by using augmented reality (AG) with a special content and innovative interactive methods, to determine the level of stress experienced by patients during dental treatment and to ease the workload of dentists.

The effectiveness of augmented reality system is tested by comparing evaluation metrics of three groups of children. In the first group, the dentist carries out the treatment alone. In the second group participants watch cartoons on a screen mounted dental unit during the treatment. In the third group, dental treatment is carried out with AG. In the course of these experiments, the effects of AG on dental treatment (vital pulpotomy and dental filling) that require local anesthesia is examined in order to measure the effects of AG on the level of stress on dental treatment.

Corresponding measures are; (1) the child's anxiety; (2) the child's pain perception during local anaesthesia and treatment; (3) the child's cooperation and general behaviour. The outcomes of the child's anxiety, pain perception, cooperation and general behaviour for three groups were evaluated by statistical analysis.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Distraction by dentist

Dental treatment is carried out with tell-show-do technique as a behavioural guidance technique.

BEHAVIORAL

Distraction by cartoon movie

Dental treatment is carried out with showing cartoon movie as a passive distraction during the treatment.

BEHAVIORAL

AG-active distraction group

The active distraction group is treated and interacting with the designed application

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Istanbul Technical University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Istanbul University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Elif Tuna Ince, Prof.Dr. · Department of Pedodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Istanbul University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
8 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-07-01
Primary Completion
2025-06-02
Completion
2025-07-30

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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