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Children’s anxiety addressed with award-winning project

BSPD’s Outstanding Innovation Award (OIA) for 2024 has gone to Lindsy Vallayil, assistant clinical director, Community Dental Service, Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust, for delivering a simple and reassuring animation for sedation.

The winning initiative, ‘Inhalation Sedation: Introductory Animation for Families’, is an innovative digital video for children and young people to access prior to a procedure requiring inhalation sedation.

OIA 2024 winning initiative: an animation for all the family

Inhalation sedation is a useful adjunct within paediatric dentistry to help anxious patients and carers manage dental care. The OIA judges were pleased to see such an innovative, yet simple approach that aims to reassure children and young people undergoing procedures that require sedation. The inhalation sedation video is positioned as an animation for all the family to watch, so that parents and carers can be involved in discussions in preparation for the treatment.

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