Table 5:
Responses to five questions of MDAS scale by both genders before and after dental visits
| Questions | Boys |
Girls |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average MDAS score before dental screening | Average MDAS score after dental screening | Average MDAS score before dental screening | Average MDAS score after dental screening | |
| Q1. How would you feel if you were about to visit dentist tomorrow? | 1.57(+0.041) | 1.41(+0.039) | 1.81(+0.061) | 1.21(+0.043) |
| Q2. How would you feel if you were waiting at the waiting room of dental clinic? | 2.37(+0.049) | 1.97(+0.053) | 2.69(+0.055) | 1.98(+0.062) |
| Q3. How would you feel if you were about to have your tooth drilled? | 3.21(+0.061) | 2.35(+0.064) | 3.40(+0.053) | 2.93(+0.058) |
| Q4. How would you feel, if your teeth were about to be scaled and polished? | 2.81(+0.057) | 2.12(+0.052) | 2.92(+0.070) | 2.60(+0.065) |
| Q5. How would you feel, if your gum were about to have local anesthetic injection? | 3.66(+0.066) | 2.61(+0.071) | 3.86(+0.073) | 2.90(+0.068) |