Active clinical trials for "Dental Caries"

The Waukesha Smiles Project will compare approaches to improve oral health habits and increase access to basic dental care for low-income children in Waukesha, Wisconsin through a school-based outreach program of oral health promotion, screening and referral.

The long term goals of this project are to develop and implement a combined prenatal and postnatal intervention to decrease early childhood caries. The program is based on risk assessment, diet intervention and counseling. To accomplish these goals a pilot study is needed to determine: 1) The ability to recruit and retain pregnant mothers in an intervention program; 2) The levels of S. mutans in pregnant mothers; 3) The ability of a diet intervention to decrease S. mutans in pregnant mothers.

The aim of the study is to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and practice of a group of dental practitioners from Cairo and Riyadh regarding caries risk assessment and management.

This is a double blind, cross-over, controlled clinical trial utilizing thirty (30) adults to evaluate remineralization of early caries lesions.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a bundled best practices oral health intervention utilizing motivational interviewing versus a didactic maternal and child healthy lifestyle intervention will reduce childrens' decayed, missing and/or filled primary tooth surfaces (dmfs) measured over a 2-3 year period.

The study aims to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and practice of dental practitioners from Cairo and Riyadh regarding caries preventive measures.

This is a double blind, cross-over, controlled clinical trial utilizing thirty (30) adults to evaluate remineralization of early caries lesions.

The purpose of this study is to conduct a community based, randomized control trial to determine if the use of chlorhexidine mouth rinse and xylitol-sweetened chewing gum will reduce the vertical transmission of caries between Alaska Native mothers to their infants.

This study evaluated the effect of low-level laser therapy on postoperative pain and wound healing in children undergoing primary molar extractions 40children, 6-10 years of age, systemically healthy, and had atraumatic extraction indications of bilateral primary molar teeth were included in the study. A randomly selected tooth was extracted under local anesthesia in the first session. Only the clot formation on the socket was observed and photographed in the control group. Other group extractions were performed 2weeks later. The LLLT group was treated with a 980 nm wavelength Doctor Smile Wiser diode laser and photographed. Non-epithelialized surface measurements were performed with the ImageJ program. Pain assessment was performed with the Wong-Baker Pain Scale. Statistical analyses were performed with SPSS software.

The study is a multi-site, double blind, parallel arm, community-based randomized controlled trial (phase III RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of new referral approaches to increase receipt of dental care among inner-city urban and rural elementary school children who were screened at school and have restorative treatment needs. The study has 5 arms: The experimental intervention is the use of a theoretically driven CSM referral letter alone, the letter plus a Dental Information Guide, a reduced CSM referral letter alone, or a reduced CSM referral letter plus a reduced Dental Information Guide. The control strategy is the use of a standard referral letter. All participating K-4 grade children will receive a screening at the beginning of the school year and at the study end point 7 months later to determine if the child received dental care. Due to lower than expected enrollment in both the Ohio and Washington sites, a second year of recruitment was added to include Bedford School District and East Cleveland School District (only KG and other grades if they did not enroll in the first year). The same study procedures, schedule and design was utilized for the second year of recruitment. The primary aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of experimental (new) versus standard referral approach given to parents/caregivers in increasing receipt of dental care among their children in grades K-4. The secondary aim is to assess changes in parent/caregiver illness representation/perception and behavioral intention between enrollment (beginning of school year) and follow-up (end of school year) to understand the underlying mechanisms of the new vs. standard referral approach that result in receipt of dental care. The hypothesis is that CSM-based interventions will increase receipt of dental care compared to the standard referral letter.