Virtual Reality Used During Tooth Extraction and Extirpation Treatment

Murat Bektaş

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety and Fear; Tooth Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: virtual reality glasses used during tooth extraction and extirpation treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06315816

DokuzEU-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study carriy out to evaluate the effect of virtual reality glasses used during tooth extraction and extirpation treatment under local anesthesia on anxiety and fear in children aged 7-10 years.

Full description

Aims and Objectives: Virtual reality glasses can be used as a distraction method in dental practices for children. This study carriy out to evaluate the effect of virtual reality glasses used during tooth extraction and extirpation treatment under local anesthesia on anxiety and fear in children aged 7-10 years.

Design: A randomized controlled experimental study design will use. Methods: The sample of the study consisted of 120 seven to ten-year-old children, including 60 in the experimental group and 60 in the control group, who will receive tooth extraction and extirpation treatment in the pediatric dental clinic of an oral and dental health center. Data collection tools included a Child and Family Information Form, the Children's Fear Scale, and the Child Anxiety Scale-State. During the procedure, the children in the experimental group will watch a video that they chose through virtual reality glasses. No intervention will apply to the control group. Data will analyz using the Chi-square test, t-test, Shapiro-Wilk, mean, and percentage distributions.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 10 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children who will between the ages of 7-10,
• Children who have Tooth Extraction
• Children who have Extirpation Treatment
• Have no cognitive development problems,

Exclusion criteria

• Children who will not want to participate in the study,
• Leave the research during the study,
• Have an audio-visual disorder that could prevent the use of virtual glasses.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimantal

Experimental group

Description:

The children will ask to choose a three-dimensional cartoon from the list to watch during the procedure, it will run, the mobile phone will placed into the virtual reality glasses, and the children wear the VR glasses and start watching the cartoon. During the procedure, the children's parents and the researcher will present, and the children watch the cartoon through virtual reality glasses. After the procedure, the virtual reality glasses will removed, and ten minutes after the procedure will completed, the CFS and the CAS-S will apply as a post-test.

Treatment:

Behavioral: virtual reality glasses used during tooth extraction and extirpation treatment

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention