Background: Silver diamine fluoride (SDF) is a beneficial therapy for caries arrest for young uncooperative children to escape more advanced behavioural management techniques with its complications. This study (Self controlled clinical trial) was conducted to evaluate parental acceptance of silver diamine fluoride (SDF) treatment with its black staining.
Subjects and methods: A group of 41 children with their parents were selected randomly from the clinic of pediatric dentistry and dental public health department of Ain shams university. Application of SDF was carried out for each child then parental acceptance was assessed using Likert scale
Results: For anterior teeth, 22 parents (53.7%) agreed to the treatment. For posterior teeth 25 parents (60.9%) agreed to the treatment. Analyzing these data showed that the difference in acceptance of SDF staining for anterior and posterior teeth was statistically significant (P=0.041).
Conclusion: Most of the parents agreed to SDF treatment despite of its black staining to escape more advanced behavioural management techniques. Acceptance of SDF staining in posterior teeth was higher than that in anterior teeth