Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Gaziosmanpaşa University, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokat, Turkey.
Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Gaziosmanpaşa University, Faculty of Medicine, Tokat, Turkey.
BMC Oral Health. 2019 Apr 18;19(1):59. doi: 10.1186/s12903-019-0756-y.
Toothache is a common consequence of untreated caries, predisposed by poor oral hygiene and high caries risk. Most children expressed their pain through their parents or carers. The aim of this study was to determine the colour of pain presence and absence.
Patients aged between 4 and 14 and referred to a dentist for the first time due to toothache had a short-term pain of 1 month caused by deep cavities. The children chose paintings from the box of 24 standard colours (Crayola, Spain) and the circles were painted. Pain was rated by children on the Visual Analoge Scale. Normality and variance were tested using the one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Associations were performed by using the Pearson correlation coefficient. Analyses were completed by using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL) version 20.0 program.
A total of 147 patients including 78 girls (53.1%) and 69 boys (46.9%) were included in the study. The principal component analysis showed that red has the highest factor loading in children with pain, whereas yellow was the other highest one in children without pain.
The presence of pain was mainly associated with red, and the absence of pain was associated with yellow in Turkish population. Description of pain with colour can be useful tool to recognize the children and to improve dentist-patient or dentist-parents communication.
未经治疗的龋齿会导致牙痛，而不良的口腔卫生和高龋齿风险则会增加牙痛的风险。大多数儿童通过父母或照顾者来表达疼痛。本研究旨在确定疼痛存在和不存在的颜色。
因牙痛首次就诊的 4 至 14 岁患者，其短期疼痛为 1 个月，由深龋引起。孩子们从 24 种标准颜色（Crayola，西班牙）的盒子中选择绘画，并在圆圈上进行绘画。孩子们用视觉模拟量表来评估疼痛。使用单样本 Kolmogorov-Smirnov 检验测试正态性和方差。使用 Pearson 相关系数进行关联分析。使用 SPSS Inc.（芝加哥，IL）版本 20.0 程序完成分析。
共有 147 名患者，其中女孩 78 名（53.1%），男孩 69 名（46.9%）。主成分分析显示，红色在有疼痛的儿童中具有最高的因子负荷，而黄色在无疼痛的儿童中则是另一个最高的因子。
在土耳其人群中，疼痛的存在主要与红色相关，而疼痛的不存在则与黄色相关。用颜色描述疼痛可以是识别儿童和改善牙医-患者或牙医-家长沟通的有用工具。
