Clinical trial NCT04183777: Assessment of the Age, Reasons, Oral Health Status and Dental Treatment Needs of Children in Their First Dental Visit
Official title: Assessment of the Age, Reasons, Oral Health Status and Dental Treatment Needs of Children in Their First Dental Visit
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Dental Caries
Parents
Parenting
Pain
Keywords: first dental visit
oral health
reasons of first dental visit
dental treatment needs
Lead sponsor: Cairo University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-12-03
Enrollment: 1
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 3
Maximum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: We are going to provide each parent or guardian whose children fulfilling the inclusion criteria attending to Department of Paediatrics Dentistry at Cairo University to fulfil questionnaire which include multiple MCQ questions. We will explain to the parents and legal guardians the aim of the study without any guiding to prevent any information bias which may occur. The questionnaire will be given before the treatment and will be collected after it. Any children whose records will include missing information will be excluded from the study.

Brief summary: to asses the age, reasons, oral health status and dental treatment needs of children in their first dental visit.

Detailed description: We are going to provide each parent or guardian whose children fulfilling the inclusion criteria attending to Department of Paediatrics Dentistry at Cairo University to fulfil questionnaire which include multiple MCQ questions. The state of oral health and dental treatment needs will be assessed based on clinical examination, according to recommendations of the World Health Organization. The total number of teeth and number of teeth affected by decay (d, D) in every child will be recorded. The intensity of caries will be estimated based on the average dmf/DMF number, i.e. caries intensity index.

The dental treatment needs of each child will be assessed based on the following categories:

1. None: no restorative treatment required.
2. Simple: preventive treatment required, such as scaling and brushing, oral hygiene instruction (OHI), application of topical fluoride and fissure sealant.
3. Moderate: one or more of teeth require one or two surface restoration.
4. Complex: one or more teeth require three or four surface restoration / stainless steel crown, endodontic therapy and crown, and /or extraction(7) .

Reasons for first dental visit will be categories as :

a. Adaptive visit dental check-up preventive purpose. b. Tooth pain. c. Emergency case (tooth injury, abscess, infection). d. Decay noted by parent.

e. Any Other. We will explain to the parents and legal guardians the aim of the study without any guiding to prevent any information bias which may occur. The questionnaire will be given before the treatment and will be collected after it. Any children whose records will include missing information will be excluded from the study.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Children with Primary and mixed dentition.
* Children visiting the dentist for the first time (first dental visit

Exclusion Criteria:

* Children with systemic diseases or physical and mental problem.
* Children whose parents refuse participation

Primary outcomes:
measure: reasons for the first dental visit.
timeFrame: 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: age
timeFrame: 1 years
measure: oral health
timeFrame: 1 years
measure: dental treatment needs
timeFrame: 1 years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: El-Sheikh Zayed City
country: Egypt
facility: Aya Abdelmawgoud Elsanhouri
state: Giza
Study officials:
affiliation: Cairo University
name: aya elsnhouri, bachelor
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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