Effect of Therapeutic Measures in Dental Caries Reduction in Children With Primary Dentition From Medellín City
NCT ID: NCT00475618
Last Updated: 2012-05-31
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
PHASE3
180 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2007-05-31
2012-05-31
Brief Summary
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Hypothesis:
1. Ho: Dental caries reduction percentage is larger or equal in the group with only prevention education and Professional cleaning, than in the groups intercepted with fluoride varnish or fluoride toothpaste.
2. Ha: Dental caries reduction percentage is less in the group with only prevention education and Professional cleaning, than in the groups intercepted with fluoride varnish or fluoride toothpaste.
Detailed Description
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The fact that the official studies do not recognize this world tendency and are limited to age groups over 5 years old, underestimate the disease as an early appearing process in life, specially in underprivileged groups. When dental caries is not properly treated, it becomes a risk factor for other systemic and infectious diseases. Early infant dental caries has been strongly related with malnutrition in children under 6 years old; is has been proved that once their dental problem is treated, weight and size are recovered.
Design and implementation of prevention programs for preschool children must be a priority.This study pretends evaluate some combined preventive measures of easy application in children under 6 as education, brush teeth, fluoride free and fluoridated tooth paste, professional cleaning and fluoride varnish application considering this an easy application measure for this group of age, which eventually it could be more cost-effective than the sealant.
The importance of doing new clinical studies to evaluate the efficacy of fluoride varnishes combined with other preventive measures, is supported in most of other studies have used a non treated group or placebo as a control group.12 The evaluation of the non fluoride toothpaste will give us an exact idea of the contribution of each of the preventive measures in dental caries reduction.
In Colombia, there is not doubt that past preventive programs had a positive effect in dental health of school children. However, preschool children have been out of these programs.
New programs should be carried on to educational establishment and infant care centres without distinction of the type of social health insurance or coverage.
The study pretends to evaluate the efficacy of therapeutics measures like fluoride varnish application and professional cleaning, which are characterized for their low cost and easy application. In the first place, parents and children in the study will receive education lecture, they will be provided with tooth brush and toothpaste with or without fluoride depending the group assigned. At the same time the study pretends to generate knowledge that contributes to minimize invasive and painful treatments in this group of age.
What effect has the inclusion of fluoride varnish and 500 ppm fluoridated toothpaste as preventive measures complementary to oral health education and professional tooth cleaning in reduction of dental caries in children under 5 years old?
Comparisons and Study group design: three groups will be randomly assigned to an experimental group:
1. Group A: Dental health education with brush and 500 PPM fluoride tooth paste; with professional cleaning each 6 months.
2. Group B: Dental health education with brush and non fluoride tooth paste; with professional cleaning each 6 months.
3. Group C: Dental health education with brush and non fluoride tooth paste; with professional cleaning each 6 months and topical fluoride varnish application.
The study will be a random controlled double blind assay made in children with primary dentition and 2.5 or 3.5 years old at the beginning, from socio-economic status 2 and 3 that are attended in Su Salud IPS ( Service lender institution) at the Metropolitan area of Medellín city with 3 years follow-up.
A second part of the study pretends to measure presence of dental fluorosis in the permanent dentition of the children that took part in the first assay. This proposal will be designed in that moment.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
PREVENTION
DOUBLE
Study Groups
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Fluoride Varnish
Professional cleaning + education + fluoride vanish
topical fluoride varnish application.
Vanish application every 6 months in all accesible tooth surfaces
Fluoride Toothpaste 500 ppm
Professional cleaning + education + fluoride toothpaste 500 ppm
professional cleaning
Daily use fluoride toothpaste 500 ppm.
No fluoride toothpaste
Professional cleaning + education + no fluoride toothpaste
No fluoride toothpaste
Daily use no fluoride toothpaste.
Interventions
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topical fluoride varnish application.
Vanish application every 6 months in all accesible tooth surfaces
professional cleaning
Daily use fluoride toothpaste 500 ppm.
No fluoride toothpaste
Daily use no fluoride toothpaste.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Deciduous teeth complete formula
* They are part of Su Salud health Service Company
* Healthy chlildrens
Exclusion Criteria
29 Months
41 Months
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Colgate Palmolive
INDUSTRY
CES University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Alexandra Saldarriaga Cadavid Ms
Principal investigator
Principal Investigators
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Alexandra Saldarriaga, Master of Sience
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
CES University - Medellín - Colombia
Other Identifiers
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1-Mejia
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id