Oral Health and Dental Management

Differences in anxiety levels of minor dental patients associated with Murottal Al-Qurâ??an: A study of tooth restoration among patients at RSGM UMY aged 8-12 years

39^th Asia-Pacific Dental and Oral Care Congress

October 26-28, 2017 Osaka, Japan

Hammia Zanzabiela and Likky Tiara Alphianti

Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

Anxiety is a normal development pattern in a child�??s growth. At the age of eight, children tend to be more anxious about some specifi c things or certain events, especially in dental clinics. Th ere are so many things aff ecting minor anxiety during treatment; sound is one such factor. Murottal Al-Qur�??an is a kind of audio distraction method. Its sound has an ability to boost delta waves in order to make people feel relaxed. Th e aim of this study is to determine the diff erences in anxiety levels of minor dental patients aft er applying Murottal Al-Qur�??an intervention. Th is study used an interventional analytic method of giving a pre-test and a post-test to one group. Th e measuring tool was the Venham picture test. Th ere were 16 minor dental patient respondents ranging from 8 to 12 years old. Firstly, the operator gave them the tooth preparation treatment for fi ve minutes and then patients were given a pre-test to determine their initial anxiety levels. Aft er that, they had their tooth preparation continued while listening to Murottal Al-Qur�??an. Finally, the patients took the post-test. Results showed that all respondents experienced varied decreasing levels of anxiety. Th e Wilcoxon signed-rank test proved that there was a signifi cant diff erence between pre and post-test anxiety levels from Murottal Al-Qur�??an intervention in dental restoration treatment, pointed by 0.000 (sig <0.05). It can be concluded that there was a diff erence in anxiety levels aft er using Murottal Al-Qur�??an with minor dental patients and Murottal itself may be chosen as a method of children�??s behavioral management in a dental clinic.

Biography :

Hammia Zanzabiela is currently pursuing Dental studies from the Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta. She is interested in Qur’anic study and she believes that it could be effectively applied in dental practice. She is also active in some dental activities such as dental voluntary project, being a Committee of Dental National Month and organizing dental seminars.