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Table IV
Level of pain and assessment method.
| Author (first) and date of publication | Pain assessment method | Level of pain during dental procedure | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moderate | Low | Very low | Total patients | ||
| Zabolotnii, 2016 | Patient: 10-point numeric rating scale | 11.66% | 63.33% | 25% | 60 |
| Allen, 1972 | Patient: 3-point verbal scale | 15.38% | 21.15% | 63.46% | 52 |
| Goldstein, 1968 | Practitioner: 3-point operating scale | 17% | 63% | 20% | 50 |
| rated as “good,” “fair,” and “poor” | |||||
| Dragon, 1967 | Practitioner: 3-point scale of qualifying | 2.06% | 2.54% | 95.40% | 157 adults |
| apprehensive signs as | 6.02% | 2.38% | 91.60% | 83 adolescents | |
| “good,” “fair,” and “poor” | 54.54% | 18.26% | 27.20% | 22 children | |
| Adult | |||||
| Adolescent | |||||
| Child | |||||
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