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Enhancing Oral Hygiene in Children Through an Innovative Motivational Model

NCT07055659 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2025-07-09

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Summary

Background

Children are susceptible to dental caries and periodontal disease, which are both preventable.

Anxiety and fear of dental pain and dentists are common among children worldwide, so it is important to encourage new strategies to overcome this condition.

Illustrations and visual aids may be helpful in passing along oral hygiene instructions to children.

Rationale As a visual model, watering the plant is linked to brushing time. The evident growth of the plant as monitored by the child, can be helpful to instill the importance of maintaining proper dental hygiene.

Study objectives To motivate children to maintain proper oral health care.

Methods Forty 8 to 12 years old children (20 boys and 20 girls) will be randomly selected. Clinical oral examination is conducted to evaluate the dental caries and oral status gingival status of all children. Parents were asked to answer a simple questionnaire to assess oral health behaviors of their kids.

Conditions

  • Oral Hygiene Orientation

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Oral hygiene assessment

experimental group will be given a plant to water it during 2-minute brushing habit. number of decayed teeth and and status of gingiva with the amount of plaque will be compared between the groups

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Qassim University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-04-30
Primary Completion
2025-12-30
Completion
2026-06-30

Countries

  • Saudi Arabia

Study Locations

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