Evaluation of the Cause of Dental Treatment in Children under General Anesthesia from the Perspective of Pediatric Dentists and Postgraduate Students and Parents of Children under General Anesthesia at the Dentistry School of Tehran University of Medical Science

Table 1

Results from the parent’s checklist regarding the reasons for general anesthesia of children for dental treatment.

	Variables	Number	Percentage
Parent’s checklist	1. Young age	80	74.1
	2. Lack of cooperation during dental treatment in previous	51	47.2
	3. Lots of dental work	38	35.2
	4. Systemic disease of the child	7	6.5
	5. Parents’ unwillingness to perform behavioral control methods	10	9.3
	6. Higher quality of work under anesthesia	13	12
	7. Mental, physical, and behavioral problems	5	4.6
	8. Reducing the number of treatment sessions	13	12
	9. Receive more cost by dentist	0	0