Anxiety is mostly related to emotional outcome of fear, thus managing emotion can also be one of the techniques to control anxiety. Dental fear is one of the most common fear which makes the patient hesitate to seek dental care. When it comes to children, a colossal of techniques are there to control their fear and anxiety. Here newer most techniques like emotional freedom technique and magnetic finger technique have been compared with the traditional methods of anxiety management to find out about its efficiency in the pediatric arena.

Myself Dr. Avani. S is a budding paediatric dentist from Kerala .I am currently doing my dental pg from Divya Jyoti college of dental sciences and research, Modinagar. I have finished my Ug from Al Ameen dental college , Vijayapura , Karnataka