Effect of Dental Treatment on Children's Growth

NCT ID: NCT01243866

Last Updated: 2010-11-19

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE1/PHASE2

Total Enrollment

86 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2007-02-28

Study Completion Date

2008-01-31

Brief Summary

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Severe dental decay affects children physically, emotionally, socially and thereby impacts on their quality of life. Evidence from developed countries showed that children with severe dental decay weighed less than their peers and following dental treatment children's growth and quality of life improved. This suggests that treatment of severe dental decay may enhance growth and wellbeing. A study was carried out in Saudi to test that hypothesis.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Dental Decay

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Early treatment

comprehensive dental treatment

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

comprehensive dental treatment

Intervention Type OTHER

Early treatment children were scheduled for comprehensive dental treatment over a 2-month period (from May to June 2007). All test children had their last dental treatment visit within the last 2 weeks of the second treatment month. The follow-up survey was scheduled for each child to be approximately 6-month after their dental last visit. This step was very important to make sure that all children were examined at exactly the same interval between end of treatment and when re-examined at the follow-up examination.

Regualr treatment

Regular treatment consisted of children who would be on a waiting list for regular dental treatment at KFAFH for at least 8 months

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

Only emergency dental treatment

Intervention Type OTHER

Regular treatment did not receive any dental treatment in the period when the early children were treated unless they had toothache or dental infection. In that case they were treated for the pain but did not have comprehensive dental treatment

Interventions

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comprehensive dental treatment

Early treatment children were scheduled for comprehensive dental treatment over a 2-month period (from May to June 2007). All test children had their last dental treatment visit within the last 2 weeks of the second treatment month. The follow-up survey was scheduled for each child to be approximately 6-month after their dental last visit. This step was very important to make sure that all children were examined at exactly the same interval between end of treatment and when re-examined at the follow-up examination.

Intervention Type OTHER

Only emergency dental treatment

Regular treatment did not receive any dental treatment in the period when the early children were treated unless they had toothache or dental infection. In that case they were treated for the pain but did not have comprehensive dental treatment

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Having dental caries with at least 2 teeth with pulpal involvement.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Children with illness known to adversely affect growth.
2. Children who required urgent dental treatment.
3. Children on regular nutritional supplements.
4. Anaemic children with Hb levels lower than 11.0 g/dl
Minimum Eligible Age

72 Months

Maximum Eligible Age

95 Months

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital

Principal Investigators

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Hiba A Alkarimi, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

KFAFH

References

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Alkarimi HA, Watt RG, Pikhart H, Jawadi AH, Sheiham A, Tsakos G. Impact of treating dental caries on schoolchildren's anthropometric, dental, satisfaction and appetite outcomes: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 2012 Aug 29;12:706. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-706.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 22928903 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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MD109

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id