An observational study in Dental Caries, Parents and Parenting, sponsored by Cairo University. Status unknown at 1 site in Egypt. Open to participants aged 3 Years to 12 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-02-05.
Sponsored by Cairo University · Observational
to asses the age, reasons, oral health status and dental treatment needs of children in their first dental visit.
We are going to provide each parent or guardian whose children fulfilling the inclusion criteria attending to Department of Paediatrics Dentistry at Cairo University to fulfil questionnaire which include multiple MCQ questions. The state of oral health and dental treatment needs will be assessed based on clinical examination, according to recommendations of the World Health Organization. The total number of teeth and number of teeth affected by decay (d, D) in every child will be recorded. The intensity of caries will be estimated based on the average dmf/DMF number, i.e. caries intensity index.
The dental treatment needs of each child will be assessed based on the following categories:
Reasons for first dental visit will be categories as :
a. Adaptive visit dental check-up preventive purpose. b. Tooth pain. c. Emergency case (tooth injury, abscess, infection). d. Decay noted by parent.
e. Any Other. We will explain to the parents and legal guardians the aim of the study without any guiding to prevent any information bias which may occur. The questionnaire will be given before the treatment and will be collected after it. Any children whose records will include missing information will be excluded from the study.
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We are going to provide each parent or guardian whose children fulfilling the inclusion criteria attending to Department of Paediatrics Dentistry at Cairo University to fulfil questionnaire which include multiple MCQ questions. We will explain to the parents and legal guardians the aim of the study without any guiding to prevent any information bias which may occur. The questionnaire will be given before the treatment and will be collected after it. Any children whose records will include missing information will be excluded from the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
reasons for the first dental visit.
There are different reasons for the first dental visit these reasons may be due to a- Adaptive visit dental check-up preventive purpose. b. Tooth pain. c. Emergency case (tooth injury, abscess, infection). d. Decay noted by parent. e. Any Other. Caregiver will be asked to fill a questionnaire include multiple reasons. The parents or Guardian select the most chief complain for coming to the first dental visit. And after selection the most common reason will determine.
Time frame: 1 year
age
Caregiver will be asked to fill a questionnaire include multiple age. The parents or Guardian select the most optimal age for the first dental visit from their point of view .
Time frame: 1 years
oral health
The state of oral health will be assessed based on clinical examination, according to recommendations of the World Health Organization. The total number of teeth and number of teeth affected by decay (d, D) in every child will be recorded. The intensity of caries will be estimated based on the average dmf/DMF number, i.e. caries intensity index.
Time frame: 1 years
dental treatment needs
Dental treatment needs will be assessed based on clinical examination, according to recommendations of the World Health Organization. The dental treatment needs of each child will be assessed based on the following categories: 1. None: no restorative treatment required. 2. Simple: preventive treatment required, such as scaling and brushing, oral hygiene instruction (OHI), application of topical fluoride and fissure sealant. 3. Moderate: one or more of teeth require one or two surface restoration. D-Complex: one or more teeth require three or four surface restoration / stainless steel crown, endodontic therapy and crown, and /or extraction.
Time frame: 1 years
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