Chairside Mouthrinse Test and Cost Effectiveness (JuvePar)

University of Helsinki

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Periodontitis, Juvenile

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: aMMP-8 chairside test

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04139863

JuvePar

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to study whether participants at risk could be identified using an aMMP-8 chairside mouth rinse test and to study if oral health and health behaviour is linked to the test result in Finnish adolescents.

Full description

Adolescents (14-15-year-olds) are randomly divided to control group and test group. Chairside mouth rinse test for aMMP-8 is performed for the test group. Two groups are compared with each other.

Participants are asked to fill a questionnaire which consists of questions concerning oral hygiene habits, tobacco products, alcohol, drug and snuff use.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 16 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All 8 class (aged 14-15 years) pupils in Jukola, Hämeenlinna, Finland
• Written informed consent from the participants and their parents (one of them)

Exclusion criteria

• No written consent to the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

aMMP-8 chairside test

Other group

Description:

Test group. The aMMP-8 chairside mouth rinse test is performed for the test group.It identifies adolescents with poor oral hygiene at risk for subclinical periodontitis without detectable and visible manifestations of the illness, such as periodontal deepened pockets.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: aMMP-8 chairside test

No test

No Intervention group

Description:

The other group is control group. No test administered.