im

WHAT DO, video games and.

Buster Keaton have in common?
When it comes to taking the
anxiety out of dental treatment,
both work equally well.
Dental patients who played elec-

tronic ping pong or viewed a mon- |

tage of comedy film. clips - while
having their teeth filled experi-
enced less stress than did patients

who. merely’ listened to an audio i."
tape of comedy routines, according =~
to a study published in: a recent

issue. of the Journal of the
American Dental Association.

While both the video game and °

comedy film demanded enough at-
tention to help: patients take their

minds off the typically’ anxiety=:

provoking ‘dental. procedure ‘being

performed, the audio tape proved: | |

no more effective in alleviating
anxiety than did # control situation
in which patients received no
distraction at all.

“We expected the two video
conditions to be more distracting

‘than the comedy tape. But we also
expected the video game to be .
" more distracting than the comedy

film, which wasn’t the case,’’ said

principal “author Sait K. Seyred,

D.D.S., associate professor at the
School of. Dentistry; State Univer-
sity of New York at Buffalo,
“Contrary.'to° previous theory,
distraction .. involving the... perfor-
mance of a motor task‘isn’t neces-
sary to lower dental: anxiety,” said
co-author Norman*L:> Corah,
Ph.D., professor’: of behavioral
science at the School of Dentistry.
The key ingredient in distraction
is physiological arousal,:

taching electrodes to patient's
fingers’ during ‘treatment, . they
discovered that the video game and
video comedy patients showed
higher ‘levels
arousal than both the audio and
control groups. In fact, the highest
fevels were found in those wat-
ching the comedy film.

“A significant.increase in-
Physiological arousal, whether or
not it’s the result‘of motor activity,
appears to reflect successful
distraction during dental pro-
cedures,’* Seyrek said.

Seyrek noted a major difference
between distraction and relaxation

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Seyrek
and Corah concluded.’ By ale §

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NOT ALL medical problems re-
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