Dental caries
Conditions
Interventions
All children, in both the intervention and control group, are receiving standard preventive and restorative dental care (care as usual), consisting of regular dental check-ups, dental health education
Sponsors
No funding has been received for this study.
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Children between 36 and 47 months old at the time of inclusion, who are healthy (ASA classification I) and registered at a general dental practice.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - Children with a physical or mental disability. - Children with a high caries activity (decayed, missing and filled teeth ≥ 4). - Children with hypo mineralised second primary molars. - Children (or siblings of the child) who have been receiving treatment at a referral practice for paediatric dental care. - Children of parents who do not speak or understand the Dutch language.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Prevalence of dental caries and dental caries experience (expressed as the number of decayed, missing and filled surfaces). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| - Parents’ self-efficacy in relation to tooth brushing. - Children's oral hygiene, assessed as reported tooth brushing behaviour and dental plaque accumulation. - Fesibility and acceptability of the intervention, as perceived by oral health professionals and parents (process evaluation). | — |
Contacts
Public ContactDenise Duijster
Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam
Outcome results
None listed