Resumen

KADE DE SOUKI, Amira; SALAZAR V, Carmen Rosa; PEREZ ESTRADA, Alba  y  NEVADO DE DUARTE, Fátima. Comportamiento del niño en el consultorio Odontológico. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 1999, vol.37, n.3, pp.172-176. ISSN 0001-6365.

This paper establishes as it main objective to explain the child's behavior in the dental office on the basis of innate conditionings and others that provide from the social environment. According to this purpose, expressions of collaboration, aggressiveness and fear were observed in 90 children that ranged from 3 and 8 years of age, and were correlated with intrinsic characteristics and to others that provide from the social environment. The Chi Square test was applied to the null hypothesis (Ho) and the values obtained allowed the verification of the connection between the variables of gender, age, physical and environmental characteristics of the dental offices and parental perception of the first dental experiencie of the child, with the fear observed in the dental office. It was concluded that the subjects observed expressed their fear to the dental procedures through the behavioral of fear and lack of collaboration.

Palabras clave : Behavior in the Dental Office; Collaboration; Aggressiveness; Fear; Social Environment.