Abstract

Children with the special health care needs may often be a challenge to the dentist in their management. These childrenwith the special needs often find themselves difficult to cooperate during treatment, creating a harmful situation. Manytechniques have been implicated in modern pediatric dentistry for the management of these children. It is generally be-lieved that the non pharmacological behavior management techniques cannot be used successfully with these children.Physical restraints and pharmacological management techniques are the most commonly used strategies. This paper high-lights that the proper use of non-pharmacological behavior management techniques can be very effective to teach thesechildren coping skills that may enable to receive a comprehensive dental care over their life time.

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