Teledentistry Mobile Photos Versus Conventional Clinical Examination for Dental Caries Diagnosis

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dental Caries

Treatments: Other: Clinical examination and mobile photo

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06661837

CEBD-CU-2024-10-25

Details and patient eligibility

About

Teledentistry is an intervention that can boost chances for the new primary healthcare paradigm, bringing service delivery and accessibility to new levels. Evidence-based studies have reported that Teledentistry improves access to dental care in rural, inaccessible areas to disadvantaged populations.

Full description

The advantage of choosing Teledentistry as a dental caries screening tool is its viability in increasing oral health care to underserved areas, increasing equity, and reducing oral disease burdens in children. Furthermore, photographic images and prints of children's carious teeth can be used to motivate parents/guardians to seek dental treatment and institute preventive care. Only a teledental assistant is needed for the imaging, eliminating the need for highly skilled professional human resources. Instead, dental professionals can be better utilized in dental hospitals/clinics.

Enrollment: 141 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Children between 6-12 years old (mixed dentition)
2. Medically free from systematic conditions

Exclusion criteria

1. Uncooperative children
2. Children with orthodontic appliances at time of treatment

Trial design

141 participants in 1 patient group

School children

Description:

Children were clinically examined by the dentist (examiner 1) and a mobile photo was taken by one volunteer dental assistant. While examiner 2 examined the clinical mobile photos and did not participate in the clinical examination. Also, examiner 1 examined the clinical mobile photos after 48 hours as a wash-out period. Calibration was performed between both examiners.

Treatment:

Other: Clinical examination and mobile photo