Effect of Dental Treatment on Children's Growth

King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2; Phase 1

Conditions: Dental Decay

Treatments: Other: comprehensive dental treatment; Other: Only emergency dental treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01243866

MD109

Details and patient eligibility

About

Severe dental decay affects children physically, emotionally, socially and thereby impacts on their quality of life. Evidence from developed countries showed that children with severe dental decay weighed less than their peers and following dental treatment children's growth and quality of life improved. This suggests that treatment of severe dental decay may enhance growth and wellbeing. A study was carried out in Saudi to test that hypothesis.

Enrollment: 86 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 72 to 95 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Having dental caries with at least 2 teeth with pulpal involvement.

Exclusion criteria

1. Children with illness known to adversely affect growth.
2. Children who required urgent dental treatment.
3. Children on regular nutritional supplements.
4. Anaemic children with Hb levels lower than 11.0 g/dl

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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86 participants in 2 patient groups

Early treatment

Experimental group

Description:

comprehensive dental treatment

Treatment:

Other: comprehensive dental treatment

Regualr treatment

No Intervention group

Description:

Regular treatment consisted of children who would be on a waiting list for regular dental treatment at KFAFH for at least 8 months

Treatment:

Other: Only emergency dental treatment