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Effect of Dental Treatment on Children's Growth

NCT01243866 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1/PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 86

Last updated 2010-11-19

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Summary

Severe dental decay affects children physically, emotionally, socially and thereby impacts on their quality of life. Evidence from developed countries showed that children with severe dental decay weighed less than their peers and following dental treatment children's growth and quality of life improved. This suggests that treatment of severe dental decay may enhance growth and wellbeing. A study was carried out in Saudi to test that hypothesis.

Conditions

  • Dental Decay

Interventions

OTHER

comprehensive dental treatment

Early treatment children were scheduled for comprehensive dental treatment over a 2-month period (from May to June 2007). All test children had their last dental treatment visit within the last 2 weeks of the second treatment month. The follow-up survey was scheduled for each child to be approximately 6-month after their dental last visit. This step was very important to make sure that all children were examined at exactly the same interval between end of treatment and when re-examined at the follow-up examination.

OTHER

Only emergency dental treatment

Regular treatment did not receive any dental treatment in the period when the early children were treated unless they had toothache or dental infection. In that case they were treated for the pain but did not have comprehensive dental treatment

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Hiba A Alkarimi, PhD · KFAFH

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
72 Months
Max Age
95 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-02-28
Primary Completion
2008-01-31
Completion
2008-01-31

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