[Use of the visual-analogue scales for the assessment of the anxious stress in dental practice in children].

The purpose of this observation-randomized study was to compare the effectiveness of the visual-analogue scale (VAS) for children to assess the level of anxiety and a comparison of it with such methods, as the test-scoring systems in children in the dental practice. In the study participated 156 children, with an average age of 5.8 years, divided into 2 groups on the grounds of possibility of alone treatment in the dental chair Children, dental sanation of which was carried out under general anaesthesia were the main group, the control group included children treated independently. VAS of anxiety is an objective and useful technique for determining the degree of fear in children in the studied age category. The method is simple and has a high degree of correlation with other test-scoring systems. The largest degree of correlation we noted with mYPAS at the stage of primary visits, a day after the manipulation the VAS of anxious had more reliability in comparison with the STAIC.