Virtual reality distraction is intended to reduce the pain experience by distracting the patient attention from the pain stimulating procedure. Then, it breaks the cycle of negative experiences by improving the dental experience. The study's aim is to compare the effect of virtual reality to the effect of screen programs on dental anxiety, pain and behavior at different time points among children undergoing dental treatment under local anesthesia. The null hypothesis assumes that virtual reality has no effect on reducing the children's pain or anxiety and there is no difference between virtual reality and screen programs in improving the children's behavior and dental experience. The study's design is a cross-over, split mouth trial in which each patient will have similar dental treatments on each side, but with different distraction techniques.
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RMS Pictorial Scale: A scale to assess the change in dental anxiety through the dental procedure
Timeframe: The dental anxiety is measured during same single visit. There is no follow up and no specific time duration for the visit. Pre-operative anxiety: before administration of local anesthesia and Post-operative anxiety: after dental extraction.