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Abstract
The effect of children’s intelligence on their dental fear and their
behavior in the dental clinic is still questionable especially with different
levels of intelligence.
This study was conducted to investigate the effect of preschool
children’s intelligence on their dental fear and their overall behavior in
the dental clinic. It is also meant to evaluate the effect of a new modified
technique called Parental Active/ Passive Presence Technique on the
overall behavior of preschool children with different levels of
intelligence.
Three hundred children were recruited from the Outpatient Clinic
of Pediatric Dentistry Department in Faculty of Dentistry at Alexandria
University. Their age ranged from 3-6 years old. Children were screened
and assessed for eligibility. In the first visit 170 children of them had the
IQ test using Stanford Binet Intelligence Scales, Fourth Edition (SB-IV) -
Arabic version (Thorndike, Hagen and Sattler, 1986; Malika, 1998a) in a
quite closed room. Twenty children were excluded from the sample due
to not being in the normal range and some of them were out of the
required number.
One hundred and fifty children were enrolled in a randomized
clinical trial with an allocation ratio