Abstract
During dental treatment, because of various stimulations, fear and anxiety occur in infant patients and cause unpleasant stress. Therefore, evaluating the stress of infant patients during dental treatment objectively and taking measures to reduce the stress are important problems. Also, mothers who accompany infants during dental treatment have a special role and the change in the mothers' emotions influence the infant patients.The alpha-amylase is a mechanism that can be measured to determine stress levels. In this research,we measured the alpha-amylase of the infant patients and their mothers who accompanied them in dental treatment.We reviewed whether or not the stress which the index places in the dental treatment of the children was influenced by the stress of their mothers.The patients were the 36 children from 2 to 12 years old with the Osaka Dental University attachment hospital pediatric dentistry and their 36 mothers. As for the saliva which was gathered before and after treatment, we measured the saliva alpha-amylase activated value.We evaluated stress in dental treatment of the children by taking into account the treatment record and gave a questionnaire to their mothers to check the change of the value after reviewing them.The alpha-amylase activated value of the children decreased significantly (p＜0.05), but the value of their mothers didn't change significantly and the influence seemed to be small.However, there were many rates of “less than 7 years old” and “the preventive treatment” in the group which the change of the alpha-amylase activated value sides with, and was influenced by, the stress of their mothers with juvenile children and when little pain stimulation was suggested.
