| dc.description.abstract | Fear of dental treatment is a big problem for some individuals, especially children. Research conducted in Finland shows that 15% of children do not care about the state of their oral cavity due to fear of dental treatment. This fear may lessen with age and with successive visits to the dentist to get used to dental situations. The fear will continue into adolescence and may lead to not wanting to be treated and being uncooperative so that it hinders the dental treatment process and will have an adverse impact on oral health. This study aims to determine the overall distribution and mean fear of dental treatment in children aged 6-12 years at Pedodonsia Clinic RSGM USU Medan based on age and sex. This type of research is a descriptive study with a cross sectional design. The number of research respondents was 158 people. Fear was measured using the Children Fear Survey Schedule-Dental Subscale (CFSS-DS) questionnaire, which consisted of 15 questions that were collected online using a Google form. The results showed that the highest distribution of fear among respondents was fear of injections as much as 32.3% and 10.1% felt very afraid, when they sight of the dentist drilling 29.1% and very afraid 5.7%, afraid when the dentist drilling, that was 28.5% and very afraid 8.2%, when they the noise of the dentist drilling 25.3% and very afraid 5.7%. The highest average respondent's fear was when the dentist drilling at 3.08 ± 1.08, then was afraid of injections 3.07 ± 1.22, was afraid when they sight of the dentist drilling 2.92 ± 1.12, was afraid when they the noise of the dentist drilling 2,79 ± 1,16. The highest mean fear was found in children aged 9 years 2.33 ± 0.85, and the lowest fear was found in children aged 12 years 2.01 ± 0.71. The average fear of female respondents was 2.35 ± 0.76 and male 2.10 ± 0.62. The older the child, the lower the fear. Based on gender, girls have a higher fear than boys. | en_US |
