Study design
The study was a randomized clinical trial (RCT) with a cross‐over design. The study participants had an intraoral clinical examination twice with a specially trained dental therapy dog present during one of the two examinations. Two specialist pediatric dentists conducted the clinical examination in a separate research operatory room at the Department of Clinical Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The Norwegian Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics approved a randomized cross‐over trial with a study sample of 