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Effectiveness of Two Health Education Interventions in the Prevention of Caries and Gingivitis in Orthodontic Patients

NCT05979805 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 94

Last updated 2025-03-19

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Summary

Dental caries and gingivitis are classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an important public health problem due to their high prevalence and incidence worldwide despite the development of public policies to combat them. They are chronic diseases that have a severe impact in terms of pain and suffering, impairment of function and effect on quality of life. During orthodontic treatments, the most common adverse event is the appearance of dental caries lesions and gingivitis due to increased retention and change of dental biofilm composition or difficulty of removal with conventional oral hygiene techniques. Efforts to implement various conventional preventive interventions of self-care and education have not decreased their incidence, so it is necessary to implement motivational interventions to help adolescents and young adults to make positive changes in their oral health habits, which are constant and lasting and prevent and control gingivitis and caries.

Conditions

  • Dental Caries
  • Tooth Demineralization
  • Gingivitis

Interventions

OTHER

Conventional Educational interventions

Conventional educational methods can be verbal, written or visual and can be combined for greater understanding and effectiveness in oral health and dietary routines. The education are imparted in the first appointment of the appliances cementation by a video and oral health instruction booklet and each patient receive an oral hygiene kit. This education is repeated in month 1 and 3 after appliances cementation.

BEHAVIORAL

Motivational intervention

In addition to the conventional educational method, a motivational interviewing (MI) by Miller and Rollnick of 30 minutes will be used, with an initial script according to the stage of change in each patient in T0. The reinforcements of motivational interviewing are in month one and three after the installation of the braces, they will have the same methodology but will be focused on the aspects that in the previous session or in the clinical assessment were detected as the most important deficiencies or risk factors for the patient.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Adriana Forero Niño, DDs · 111211

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
28 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-04-15
Primary Completion
2025-12-20
Completion
2026-04-20

Countries

  • Colombia

Study Locations

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