A Pilot Study to Promote Maternal and Infant Oral Health

UConn Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dental Caries

Treatments: Behavioral: Education only; Behavioral: Nutrition plus education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00719238

07-093-02

CTF2007

Details and patient eligibility

About

The long term goals of this project are to develop and implement a combined prenatal and postnatal intervention to decrease early childhood caries. The program is based on risk assessment, diet intervention and counseling. To accomplish these goals a pilot study is needed to determine: 1) The ability to recruit and retain pregnant mothers in an intervention program; 2) The levels of S. mutans in pregnant mothers; 3) The ability of a diet intervention to decrease S. mutans in pregnant mothers.

Enrollment: 121 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 or over;
• Pregnant
• High S. mutans levels

Exclusion criteria

• Younger than 18;
• Other health conditions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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121 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nutrition plus education

2

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education only