Analysis of physiological responses associated with emotional changes induced by viewing video images of dental treatments

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  • 関矢 多希
    Pediatric Dentistry, Department of Oral Health Sciences, Division of Medical and Dental Sciences, Graduate school, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
  • 三輪 全三
    Pediatric Dentistry, Department of Oral Health Sciences, Division of Medical and Dental Sciences, Graduate school, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
  • 土橋 なつみ
    Basic Oral Health Science, Department of Fundamental Oral Health Engineering, Course for Oral Heath Engineering, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
  • 上原 奈緒子
    Pediatric Dentistry, Department of Oral Health Sciences, Division of Medical and Dental Sciences, Graduate school, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
  • 杉本 久美子
    Basic Oral Health Science, Department of Fundamental Oral Health Engineering, Course for Oral Heath Engineering, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

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Since the understanding of emotional changes induced by dental treatments is important for dentists to provide a safe and comfortable dental treatment, we analyzed physiological responses during watching video images of dental treatments to search for the appropriate objective indices reflecting emotional changes. Fifteen healthy young adult subjects voluntarily participated in the present study. Electrocardiogram (ECG), electroencephalogram (EEG) and corrugator muscle electromyogram (EMG) were recorded and changes of them by viewing videos of dental treatments were analyzed. The subjective discomfort level was acquired by Visual Analog Scale method. Analyses of autonomic nervous activities from ECG and four emotional factors (anger/stress, joy/satisfaction, sadness/ depression and relaxation) from EEG demonstrated that increases in sympathetic nervous activity reflecting stress increase and decreases in relaxation level were induced by the videos of infiltration anesthesia and cavity excavation, but not intraoral examination. The corrugator muscle activity was increased by all three images regardless of video contents. The subjective discomfort during watching infiltration anesthesia and cavity excavation was higher than intraoral examination, showing that sympathetic activities and relaxation factor of emotion changed in a manner consistent with subjective emotional changes. These results suggest that measurement of autonomic nervous activities estimated from ECG and emotional factors analyzed from EEG is useful for objective evaluation of subjective emotion.

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