Music Therapy in Restorative Dentistry
ConditionDental Anxiety
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-40
SponsorAtaturk University
About this trial
After administering a questionnaire to collect demographic data (including gender, age, education level, and frequency of dental visits) and MDAS scores, patients with an MDAS score of 10 or higher, indicating moderate to high dental anxiety, will be randomly allocated into three groups (n = 25 per group). Standard restorative treatment will be performed on the selected patients under music therapy.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Systemically healthy adults aged 18-40 years.
Presence of D2 dentin caries confirmed by clinical and radiographic examination, characterized by radiolucency limited to the outer half of the dentin without pulpal or periapical pathology,
Indication for single-session restorative treatment,
Individuals with moderate-to-high dental anxiety according to the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS), defined as a total score ≥10 (moderate: 10-18; high: ≥19).
Disqualifiers
deep dentin or pulpal involvement lesions, secondary caries, cracks, or fractured teeth,
Acute or spontaneous dental pain, percussion sensitivity, or periapical pathology,
Individuals with an MDAS total score ≤ 9 (no/low dental anxiety) were excluded.
Hearing impairment or contraindications for music therapy,
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- classical music group
- turkish music group
- control
Treatment groups
75 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov