Review Article - Current Pediatric Research (2024) Volume 28, Issue 11

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on children behaviour in pediatric dental clinics.

Child psychology is the study of subconscious and conscious childhood development. Child psychologists world over observe how the children interact with their parents, their peers and the environment so as to know about their mental health. The brain of a child is continuously evolving. The child learns most of his/her behaviors from the interaction with outside world. In the initial years of development the child learns most of his behaviors at home. But slowly he has to move out of his home and interact with other children, other people in playschool, kindergarten and his behavior gets shaped likewise. The outside environment has a very important part to play in the development of child psychology and further his behavior once he grows up. This is how the children used to grow both physically and psychologically. But things changed drastically since the viral outbreak of CoV-2 as a global pandemic. Although the corona virus (nCoV-2) has not affected the children much virulently but the effect it has on the psychology of small children is yet to be ascertained. Here we will look into the psychological impact of the corona pandemic on children and the effect it can have on their dental behavior.

Author(s):

Sonu Acharya*

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