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International Oral Presentation

International Oral Presentations

Effect of Immersive Virtual Reality on Pain in Different Dental Procedures in Children

Saturday, May 25, 2024
8:45 AM – 9:00 AM EST
Location: MTCC, South Building - Room 801
A study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual reality on pain perception in dental procedures in children. Patients were randomly assigned to either receive VR during their dental procedure, or treated without VR. VAS and Wong-Baker FACES rating scale, were used to assess the pain levels during dental procedures.
Patients receiving painful dental procedures requiring local anesthesia reported significant reductions in pain intensity/worst pain during the dental procedure on all subjective and behavioral pain measures with the use of VR distraction technique

Learning Objectives:

  • Conduct that implementing effective pain management is important to increase patient compliance during paediatric dental procedures.
  • Demonstrate that patients receiving painful dental procedures requiring local anesthesia had significant reductions in pain intensity and behavioral pain measures with the use of VR.
  • Demonstrate that the use of VR was found to be an effective distraction tool to ease pain and anxiety in the tested dental procedures, for children receiving painful dental procedures.