Impact of Therapy Dogs on Child Anxiety and Behavior During Local Anesthesia for Dental Procedures
NCT06725134
This study is recruiting at 1 US site in 1 state, according to its ClinicalTrials.gov record last updated .
Summary
Therapy dogs in dental offices might help anxious children during dental care. Therapy dogs might help children during injection of local anesthetic, when we inject numbing medication before working on the teeth. The goal of this study is to learn if having a therapy dog with a child during the injection of numbing medication helps children to be more comfortable at the dentist's office. This study is of children who need dental care using local anesthesia.
Shortened from the sponsor's brief summary. View official record on ClinicalTrials.gov
Conditions studied
- Situational Anxiety
- Behavior
Eligibility basics and study details
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Ages
- 4 to 12 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
- Last updated on ClinicalTrials.gov
- December 3, 2025
These are the basic criteria only. The full inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official record, and the study team decides who can take part.
US recruiting sites
Michigan · 1
- University of Michigan School of Dentistry Children's Clinic · Ann Arbor, MI
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, data processed . Recruiting US sites filtered by distance and site status; summaries shortened.