The Efficacy of Little Lovely Dentist, Dental Song, and Tell-Show-Do Techniques in Alleviating Dental Anxiety in Paediatric Patients: A Clinical Trial

Table 2

Comparison of heart rate and level of anxiety among the study groups .

Anxiety reduction techniques			Mean	Standard deviation	value
Little lovely dentist	Before heart rate	40	107.9	8.2	0.002
	After heart rate	40	104.9	6.8
Dental song	Before heart rate	40	106.6	6.1	0.001
	After heart rate	40	104	7.6
Tell-show-do	Before heart rate	40	101.4	15.6	0.677
	After heart rate	40	108.2	7.5
Control	Before heart rate	40	102.8	5.3	0.013
	After heart rate	40	107.5	5.9