A 8-month Study on the Use of Intra-oral Camera and Text Messages on Gingivitis Control

Universidade de Lisboa

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Gingivitis

Treatments: Device: Intra Oral Camera; Device: Mobile Text Messages

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03439969

Ethic Committee Doc. No. 6/14

Details and patient eligibility

About

To investigate the effects of using an intra-oral camera (IOC) during supportive periodontal therapy, and oral hygiene mobile text messages (SMS) between appointments on clinical, behavioral and psychological parameters of patients with gingivitis.

Full description

Dental hygiene behaviours are of paramount importance for controlling gingival health. There is evidence on the use of IOC and of text messages in boosting motivation, sustainability and clinical efficacy of dental hygiene behaviors. Orchestrating these two technologies is expected to create a coaction effect which could improve behavior change interventions, but the effectiveness of such strategy needs to be inspected.

Enrollment: 233 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Gingivitis BOMP > 0.5 20 teeth (minimum 5 per quadrant) > 18 years old

Exclusion criteria

periodontitis (pockets >3), smoking, orthodontics, pregnancy removable partial dentures

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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233 participants in 4 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Dental appointment, one hour and included activities that are normally part of a SPT (Suportive Periodontal Treatment) consultation, as well as specific behavior change techniques, such as the use of reinforcement, goal-setting and feedback considered crucial to the accomplishment of long term behavior change. Moreover, special attention was given to patient communication and words such as 'cleaning' and 'hygiene' were replaced by therapeutic synonyms (e.g. inflamed areas and controlling the inflammation) in order to focus patients´ attention on the varied facets of oral health care and increase their perception of the treatment needs. In this group, the device SOPROCARE® by Acteon and Text Messages were not used.

Intra Oral Camera

Experimental group

Description:

Dental appointment, one hour and included activities that are normally part of a SPT consultation, as well as specific behavior change techniques, such as the use of reinforcement, goal-setting and feedback. Special attention was given to patient communication and words such as 'cleaning' and 'hygiene' were replaced by therapeutic synonyms (e.g. inflamed areas and controlling the inflammation). In this group, the device SOPROCARE® by Acteon was used in the examination and diagnosis and also for the establishment of therapeutic goals, strategies and skills.

Treatment:

Device: Intra Oral Camera

Mobile Text Messages

Experimental group

Description:

Dental appointment, one hour and included activities that are normally part of a SPT consultation, as well as specific behavior change techniques, such as the use of reinforcement, goal-setting and feedback.. Participants in the SMS group further received a total of 16 messages (SMS). One per week.

Treatment:

Device: Mobile Text Messages

Intra Oral Camera and Text Messages

Experimental group

Description:

Dental appointment, one hour and included activities that are normally part of a SPT consultation, as well as specific behavior change techniques, such as the use of reinforcement, goal-setting and feedback. Special attention was given to patient communication and words such as 'cleaning' and 'hygiene' were replaced by therapeutic synonyms (e.g. inflamed areas and controlling the inflammation). In this group, the device SOPROCARE® by Acteon was used in the examination and diagnosis and also for the establishment of therapeutic goals, strategies and skills.Participants also received SMS a total of 16 messages (SMS). One per week.

Treatment:

Device: Mobile Text Messages

Device: Intra Oral Camera