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- Title
Colors and emotions: Adding joy to pediatric dentistry.
- Authors
Darmode, Laxmi Narayan
- Abstract
Colors play an important role in child's life. It is one of the most instantaneous methods of conveying messages and meanings. Moreover, it can influence person's mood and behavior and also stimulate brain and body. Child's first impression about a pediatric dental setup may have a lasting impact on his dental behavior and attitude. During dental visit, the child is quite nervous and has fear of white coat and the instruments used for dental procedures. This fear in a child can be reduced by making the clinical area bright and colorful. A nice colorful dental environment plays an important role in reducing fear and anxiety in children during dental treatment. Colorful pictures of cartoons can be painted on the walls of clinic, and animated models or posters can be used to explain the dental procedure to the child. Different colors and their shades have different impacts on child's feelings and thinking. It has both positive and negative impacts on child as color selection can cause child to feel excitable or bored and uninterested. Lighter colors such as yellow and blue elicit positive feelings. Darker colors such as black and red create negative emotions such as nervousness, depression, and anxiety in some children. Nowadays, many pediatric dental setups in India are coming up with colorful themes. Thus, the aim of this poster is to enlighten the importance of using right colors in dental operatory to reduce anxiety in child.
- Subjects
INDIA; FEAR of dentists; PEDIATRIC dentistry; EMOTIONS; DENTAL equipment; JOY; DENTAL care utilization
- Publication
Journal of the Indian Society of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry, 2024, Vol 42, pS152
- ISSN
0970-4388
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/jisppd.jisppd_59_24