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Domiciliary Professional Oral Care for Dependent Elderly

NCT02669979 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2018-08-13

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Summary

Today's increase of dentate elderly, many of them dependent, is a challenge, both according to the personal daily oral hygiene and dentistry. This is not only an oral problem, as research findings point to strong associations between oral and general health, even mortality. These findings are especially noticeable in elderly and frail individuals.

Dental care is usually performed in stationary dental clinics where the patients are transported to receive treatment. Dependent elderly dental patients may present many obstacles to traditional dental care due to cognitive limitations or dementia, mobility or transport problems. An alternative is domiciliary dental care where the dental staff performs the treatment by a home visit, in the patients daily living environment. The ability to handle personal oral hygiene is often decreased in these patients and left to overburdened nursing staff that often also lack sufficient knowledge about oral health care, why prophylactic professional oral care is especially important. This type of care can with rather simple equipments be performed as domiciliary treatment of good quality, while more advanced dental care may present restrictions in the home environment. However, in the Swedish dental system with subsidized dental care for dependent and elderly patients, there are restrictions for the number of prophylactic oral care treatments. The levels vary in different counties and regions. The rationale for this is probably tradition and economy as scientific evidence is lacking.

The aim with this project is to develop domiciliary professional oral care. The researchers will compare the effect of different regimens for domiciliary prophylactic professional oral care both according to content and frequency. The overall aim is to establish relevant recommendations for domiciliary prophylactic professional oral care.

Conditions

  • Dental Caries
  • Gingivitis

Interventions

OTHER

Intervention

Professional oral care

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Inger Wårdh, Assoc prof · Karolinska Institutet

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
80 Years
Max Age
95 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-31
Primary Completion
2017-04-30
Completion
2017-04-30

Countries

  • Sweden

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