A 8-month Study on the Use of Intra-oral Camera and Text Messages on Gingivitis Control

NCT ID: NCT03439969

Last Updated: 2018-02-22

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 233 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2014-06-01
• Study Completion Date: 2016-11-30

Brief Summary

To investigate the effects of using an intra-oral camera (IOC) during supportive periodontal therapy, and oral hygiene mobile text messages (SMS) between appointments on clinical, behavioral and psychological parameters of patients with gingivitis.

Detailed Description

Dental hygiene behaviours are of paramount importance for controlling gingival health. There is evidence on the use of IOC and of text messages in boosting motivation, sustainability and clinical efficacy of dental hygiene behaviors. Orchestrating these two technologies is expected to create a coaction effect which could improve behavior change interventions, but the effectiveness of such strategy needs to be inspected.

Conditions

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Gingivitis

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Control

Dental appointment, one hour and included activities that are normally part of a SPT (Suportive Periodontal Treatment) consultation, as well as specific behavior change techniques, such as the use of reinforcement, goal-setting and feedback considered crucial to the accomplishment of long term behavior change. Moreover, special attention was given to patient communication and words such as 'cleaning' and 'hygiene' were replaced by therapeutic synonyms (e.g. inflamed areas and controlling the inflammation) in order to focus patients´ attention on the varied facets of oral health care and increase their perception of the treatment needs. In this group, the device SOPROCARE® by Acteon and Text Messages were not used.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Intra Oral Camera

Dental appointment, one hour and included activities that are normally part of a SPT consultation, as well as specific behavior change techniques, such as the use of reinforcement, goal-setting and feedback. Special attention was given to patient communication and words such as 'cleaning' and 'hygiene' were replaced by therapeutic synonyms (e.g. inflamed areas and controlling the inflammation). In this group, the device SOPROCARE® by Acteon was used in the examination and diagnosis and also for the establishment of therapeutic goals, strategies and skills.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Intra Oral Camera

Intervention Type: DEVICE

SPT - Appointment with Intra-Oral Camera

• Examination and diagnosis (15 min) using Intra-oral camera.
• Motivation, discussion about desired outcomes and treatment needs (using Intra-oral camera) followed by instrumentation (scaling, polishing) (30 min).

Mobile Text Messages

Dental appointment, one hour and included activities that are normally part of a SPT consultation, as well as specific behavior change techniques, such as the use of reinforcement, goal-setting and feedback.. Participants in the SMS group further received a total of 16 messages (SMS). One per week.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Mobile Text Messages

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Dental inter-proximal control with floss holder and receiving 16 SMS during 4 months.

Intra Oral Camera and Text Messages

Dental appointment, one hour and included activities that are normally part of a SPT consultation, as well as specific behavior change techniques, such as the use of reinforcement, goal-setting and feedback. Special attention was given to patient communication and words such as 'cleaning' and 'hygiene' were replaced by therapeutic synonyms (e.g. inflamed areas and controlling the inflammation). In this group, the device SOPROCARE® by Acteon was used in the examination and diagnosis and also for the establishment of therapeutic goals, strategies and skills.Participants also received SMS a total of 16 messages (SMS). One per week.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Mobile Text Messages

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Dental inter-proximal control with floss holder and receiving 16 SMS during 4 months.

Intra Oral Camera

Intervention Type: DEVICE

SPT - Appointment with Intra-Oral Camera

• Examination and diagnosis (15 min) using Intra-oral camera.
• Motivation, discussion about desired outcomes and treatment needs (using Intra-oral camera) followed by instrumentation (scaling, polishing) (30 min).

Interventions

Mobile Text Messages

Dental inter-proximal control with floss holder and receiving 16 SMS during 4 months.

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Intra Oral Camera

SPT - Appointment with Intra-Oral Camera

• Examination and diagnosis (15 min) using Intra-oral camera.
• Motivation, discussion about desired outcomes and treatment needs (using Intra-oral camera) followed by instrumentation (scaling, polishing) (30 min).

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Gingivitis BOMP > 0.5 20 teeth (minimum 5 per quadrant) > 18 years old

Exclusion Criteria

periodontitis (pockets >3), smoking, orthodontics, pregnancy removable partial dentures

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Lisbon

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Mario Rui Araújo

Master in Health Psychology

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

References

Godinho CA, Alvarez MJ, Lima ML, Schwarzer R. Health messages to promote fruit and vegetable consumption at different stages: A match-mismatch design. Psychol Health. 2015;30(12):1410-32. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2015.1054827. Epub 2015 Jul 24.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 26010304 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

Ethic Committee Doc. No. 6/14

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id