The Appropriateness (or lack thereof) of Physical Restraints for Managing Challenging Pediatric Dental Behavior
Journal Title: Pediatrics and Neonatal Nursing – Open Journal - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Amongst the many controversial topics in the field of dentistry for children is the relative appropriateness (or lack thereof) of the application of physical restraints for the management of challenging and interfering child behavior. Believers in its appropriateness prefer the euphemistic1 term “protective immobilization or stabilization” in contrast to the negative connotation implied by simply describing physical restraint. This manuscript provides a critical look from the perspective of a child-oriented behavioral researcher and private practitioner of forty years who shares a most unenthusiastic bias towards a reliance on restraint techniques to overcome interfering and undesirable child behavior. This bias is stipulated; from this author’s perspective there are but a few indications under which application of immobilization devices are safe and in the best interest of children and their developing psyche with respect to safe delivery of treatment and the development of future attitudes toward care.
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John E. Nathan
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- DOI 10.17140/PNNOJ-4-e007
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