Condicionamento comportamental infantil em odontopediatria, como abordar?

Abstract

The negative child behavior in dental treatment can be generated by dental fear and anxiety, which, consequently, can interfere with pediatric dental treatment. In this sense, the pediatric dentist must have different non-pharmacological conditioning approaches capable of providing positive results in child care. Therefore, the present literature review aims to describe the main non-pharmacological approaches to conditioning children's behavior in pediatric dentistry. For this, searches for studies published on the same theme and indexed in the databases were carried out: Virtual Health Library (VHL), Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo), National Library of Medicine National Institutes oh Health (Pubmed) and Google Scholar, using the following keywords in that search: Fear and Anxiety (Medo e ansiedade); Child Behavior (Comportamento infantil); Pediatric Dentistry (Odontopediatria); Psychology, Child (Psicologia Infantil). Different approaches to child behavior are available to the dental surgeon or pediatric dentist, such as desensitization, distraction, tell-show-do modeling, voice control, positive reinforcement, protective stabilization and other techniques. It is important that the professional has knowledge of the aforementioned techniques in order to promote an adequate, safe and free of negative impacts on future behaviors and on the child's oral health condition, always considering the explanations of the parents and / or responsible and their prior authorization.