Outcome of Chair-Side Dental Fear Treatment: Long-Term Follow-Up in Public Health Setting

Table 1

Age-specific distribution (n (%)) by gender, treatments given in CFDP as well as outcome of the fear treatment afterwards among the participants referred to CFDP.

	All	2–6 yrs	7–12 yrs	≥13 yrs
Participants	163 (100)	73 (45)	65 (40)	25 (15)
Females	69 (42)	33 (45)	32 (49)	4 (16)	0.013
Persons with disabilities	18 (11)	2 (3)	7 (11)	9 (36)	<0.001
BT/CBT only	21 (13)	8 (11)	11 (17)	2 (8)	0.424
Oral sedation	94 (58)	52 (71)	37 (57)	5 (20)	<0.001
N2O	41 (25)	11 (15)	20 (31)	10 (40)	0.019
General anesthesia	73 (45)	33 (45)	25 (38)	15 (60)	0.183
Successful outcome	112 (69)	53 (73)	47 (72)	12 (48)	0.053