None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Tooth decay is a really common problem. For years decayed teeth have been fixed by drilling out the decay and then placing fillings. We know that in children’s teeth, fillings don’t last for as long as they do in adults, and that this often means fillings are done again and again in the same tooth. The Hall Technique is a new way of treating decayed children’s primary molar (back) teeth. In the Hall Technique, a stainless steel crown (SSC) is glued on over the decayed tooth without injections or drilling. This seals in the decay and stops it from getting worse, and the stainless steel crown lasts for longer than any other type of filling, so retreatment is less likely to be needed. This study will measure the success of Hall Technique, and children's acceptance of the treatment, compared to the treatment with conventional SSCs for children who attend the Northland District Health Board Community Oral Health Service dental clinics.
Interventions
The Hall Technique is a method of managing dental caries in primary molar teeth by cementing a preformed stainless steel crown onto a tooth. This is without carious tissue removal and without local anaesthesia and takes approximately 10 minutes. Children will receive the Hall Technique treatment on one visit, and the conventional technique on a separate visit. The order of treatment (which comes first) and the tooth to receive the Hall technique will be randomised. The dental therapist will cond
The Hall Technique is a method of managing dental caries in primary molar teeth by cementing a preformed stainless steel crown onto a tooth. This is without carious tissue removal and without local anaesthesia and takes approximately 10 minutes. Children will receive the Hall Technique treatment on one visit, and the conventional technique on a separate visit. The order of treatment (which comes first) and the tooth to receive the Hall technique will be randomised. The dental therapist will conduct the treatment, and the interval between appointments will be a minimum of 1 week, and maximum of 1 month.
Sponsors
University of Otago
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Other
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Subject, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
4 Years to 8 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Consenting children and their parents/caregivers. Children aged 4-8years, free from complicating medical history, with 2 or more surface caries in primary molar tooth or teeth requiring treatment.
Exclusion criteria
Child unable to be examined due to inability to comply, no caries or only single surface caries, complicating medical history, outside age range.
Outcome results
None listed