Sapideh Gilani, Rachel Roditi, Neil Bhattacharyya
Grade repetition and parents' perception of hearing loss: An analysis of data from children in the United States
The Laryngoscope
provide consistent method assessment sedation need among patients undergoing dental treatment based specific risk factors dental anxiety medical status treatment complexity needed dental treatment using iosn indication sedation need tool assisting clinician decision making process total 237 patients aged 12 asa ii enrolled study structured questionnaire comprising three sections distributed among participants section 1 comprises details age gender literacy level occupation monthly income previous dental treatment history section 2 based modified dental anxiety scale questionnaire comprising five questions ranging anxious extremely anxious third section based using iosn tool comprising three components mdas modified dental anxiety scale rank score systemic health asa status rank score treatment complexity rank scores total three scores computed determine total rank score suggested sedation need history past traumatic dental experiences also inquired patient total 237 patients aged 12 asa ii enrolled study 561 female statistical analysis conducted using ibm spss statistics 23 software based mdas score 47237 198 participants found highly anxious related dental procedures 346 participants showed high sedation need performing dental procedure sedation need found significantly associated female gender significant p value p0016 higher education status p0016 history previous traumatic dental experience p 0001 simple assessment tool enable clinicians decision making identify patients need dental treatment sedation based patientspecific risk factors past traumatic dental experiences need sedation assessed information patient anxiety level towards dental treatment medical history complexity planned dental treatment iosn tool simple quick assessment tool applied preprocedural assessment sedation need dental treatment