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

Table 3

The comparison of FIS scores with anxiety reduction techniques in participants .

Anxiety reduction techniques		Mean		Standard deviation	value
Little lovely dentist	Application FIS before	2.80	40	1.06	0.032
	Application FIS after	2.52	40	0.87
Dental song	Song FIS before	2.80	40	0.96	0.036
	Song FIS after	2.47	40	0.84
Tell-show-do	Tell-show-do FIS before	2.60	40	0.74	0.001
	Tell-show-do FIS after	3.30	40	0.96
Control	Control FIS before	2.91	40	0.92	0.013
	Control FIS after	3.52	40	1.24

FIS: facial image scale; : number of participants.