N/A
N=92
Impact of Providing Free Preventive Dental Health Products on Infant's Tooth Brushing and Bottle-feeding Termination Practices
Infant's Tooth Brushing
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02200536 ↗Enrolled (actual)
92
Serious AEs
—
Results posted
Mar 2015
Primary outcome: Primary: Change in Mother's Reported Infant's Twice-a-day Tooth Brushing Practice. — 90.6; 10; 6.7 percentage of mothers
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- Infant oral health promotion package (Other); Infant oral health pamphlet (Other)
- Age
- Pediatric · 0+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- Damascus University
- Primary completion
- May 2013
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Change in Mother's Reported Infant's Twice-a-day Tooth Brushing Practice. |
90.6; 10; 6.7 | — |
| SECONDARY Change in Mother's Reported Bottle-feeding Practice. |
18.8; 69.2; 93.8 | — |
Summary
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.
Eligibility 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.
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02200536). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.