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Impact of Providing Free Preventive Dental Health Products on Infant's Tooth Brushing and Bottle-feeding Termination Practices

NCT02200536 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 92

Last updated 2015-03-27

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Summary

Governmental initiatives (such as Sure Start in the UK) have integrated an oral health promotion intervention within their maternal and child health program and delivered dental education and enabling resources (a gift bag including a baby toothbrush, fluoride toothpaste and a trainer cup) to infant's mothers. Whilst this approach has minimal financial implications of human resources, no evidence exists regarding its effectiveness in establishing desirable infant's oral health behaviours. In Syria, there is a great need for developing an infant's oral health promotion program to promote oral hygiene practice, provide access to fluoride and terminate bottle-feeding practice. Thus, the current study aimed to test the effectiveness of an integrated infant's oral health promotion intervention within the Syrian national immunization program, which delivered printed dental education materials, a baby tooth brush, fluoride toothpaste (1000 ppm) and a trainer cup, in establishing one-year old infant's oral hygiene and bottle-feeing termination practices.

Conditions

  • Infant's Tooth Brushing

Interventions

OTHER

Infant oral health promotion package

Infant oral health promotion package includes an infant oral health pamphlet, a baby toothbrush, fluoride toothpaste (1000 ppm) and a trainer cup.

OTHER

Infant oral health pamphlet

Infant oral health pamphlet

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Damascus University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Easter Joury, BDS, DOrth, MSc, PhD · Damascus Univeristy

  • Muna Alghadban, BDS, MSc · Damascus University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Months
Max Age
12 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-03-31
Primary Completion
2013-05-31
Completion
2013-05-31

Countries

  • Syria

Study Locations

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