Pain Assessment in Children Using a Modified Wong Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale
Chandran Roshni,
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( Chandran Roshni ) - YMT Dental College
Abstract
Objectives: Pain assessment in children is an important measure in treatment planning and to establish effectiveness of treatment. To evaluate the efficiency of a Modified Wong?Baker Faces Scale (MWBFS) and evaluate its comfortability with Wong?Baker Faces Scale (WBFS).
Methods: Study consists of 50 children aged 3 to 12 years old. Following dental treatment like restoration, extraction, pulp therapy etc, patients were asked to relate the pain experienced during treatment by selecting a face from the MWBFS template and WBFS template. Patients’ comfortability with both the scales recorded.
Results: All the 50 children preferred the MWBFS (100% preference) over the WBFS. A statistical significance of ＜0.001 indicates true reliability of MWBFS.
Conclusions: MWBFS is a reliable scale. Hence, it can be used successfully in pediatric dentistry by clinicians and researchers.
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pain; pain assessment; pediatric dentistry
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