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*Prof. Dr. Baydaa Ali Othman, Marwa Zuhair Mahmood, Ala’a Ibrahim Hussein, Awj Oday Talib and Mawj Mohammed Fatih

ABSTRACT

The study Behavior of children in dental clinic was to analyze and assess the behavior of children during their dental visit to the Pediatric Dental Clinic, College of Dentistry, Ibn Sina university of Medical and pharmaceutical Sciences, Baghdad, Iraq. They were assessed by gender and age. The study was conducted in 48 children who reported to the Pediatric Dentistry clinic during (Academic Year 2021 – 2022). All included children were without any systemic diseases. The children’s behaviors were recorded in accordance with the Frankl's behavior scale. The data were summarized and described using relative frequencies and percentages for categorical variables. When the outcome variables were categorical chi – square test was used to examine differences between groups for statistical significance. Statistical significance was set at p?0.05. Forty eight children were included in this study. The range of patient’s age was 5-12 years. Boy / Girl no. was 25/23. All children were without any systemic diseases. Concerning parents’ education; majority of children’s father have College and Postgraduate and the lowest have Primary and no education, meanwhile, majority of children’s mother have Secondary and high school and the lowest have Primary and no education, Concerning Frankl’s Rating Scale; majority of children showed Rating 3 followed by Rating 4, Rating 2 and the lowest was Rating 1. Concerning behavior of children according to gender, non- significant differences was recorded at p? 0.05. Concerning types of behavior management techniques used; the majority was Communication followed by modulation, voice control, Tell show do and Positive /Negative Reinforcement, respectively.