Impact of Providing Free Preventive Dental Health Products on Infant's Tooth Brushing and Bottle-feeding Termination Practices

Damascus University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infant's Tooth Brushing

Treatments: Other: Infant oral health pamphlet; Other: Infant oral health promotion package

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02200536

DM20AM18

Details and patient eligibility

About

Governmental initiatives (such as Sure Start in the UK) have integrated an oral health promotion intervention within their maternal and child health program and delivered dental education and enabling resources (a gift bag including a baby toothbrush, fluoride toothpaste and a trainer cup) to infant's mothers. Whilst this approach has minimal financial implications of human resources, no evidence exists regarding its effectiveness in establishing desirable infant's oral health behaviours. In Syria, there is a great need for developing an infant's oral health promotion program to promote oral hygiene practice, provide access to fluoride and terminate bottle-feeding practice. Thus, the current study aimed to test the effectiveness of an integrated infant's oral health promotion intervention within the Syrian national immunization program, which delivered printed dental education materials, a baby tooth brush, fluoride toothpaste (1000 ppm) and a trainer cup, in establishing one-year old infant's oral hygiene and bottle-feeing termination practices.

Full description

The current randomized controlled trail allocated 92 one-year old infants, attending a maternal and child health center in Sweida city-Syria, to receive their vaccination, into three groups: test, control 1 and control 2. The test group received an infant oral health promotion package including a child oral health pamphlet, a baby toothbrush, fluoride toothpaste (1000 ppm) and a trainer cup. Control 1 received only an infant pamphlet, whilst Control 2 received no intervention. A mother's self-completed structured questionnaire and an infant's clinical examination were completed and performed, at baseline and after one month, to assess tooth brushing and bottle-feeding practices as well as the presence of old plaque on infant's primary teeth, respectively.

Enrollment: 92 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 12 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria for infants:

• Healthy
• Single (not twins).
• Full-term (≥37 weeks).
• Birth weight ≥ 2500 g.
• Family size ≤3 children (including the infant).
• Their first tooth erupted.
• No reported tooth brushing practice.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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92 participants in 3 patient groups

Test

Experimental group

Description:

Infant oral health promotion package

Treatment:

Other: Infant oral health promotion package

Control 1

Active Comparator group

Description:

Infant oral health pamphlet

Treatment:

Other: Infant oral health pamphlet

Control 2

No Intervention group