Assessment of the Age, Reasons, Oral Health Status and Dental Treatment Needs of Children in Their First Dental Visit

to asses the age, reasons, oral health status and dental treatment needs of children in their first dental visit.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Pain; Dental Caries; Parenting; Parents

Detailed Description

We are going to provide each parent or guardian whose children fulfilling the inclusion criteria attending to Department of Paediatrics Dentistry at Cairo University to fulfil questionnaire which include multiple MCQ questions. The state of oral health and dental treatment needs will be assessed based on clinical examination, according to recommendations of the World Health Organization. The total number of teeth and number of teeth affected by decay (d, D) in every child will be recorded. The intensity of caries will be estimated based on the average dmf/DMF number, i.e. caries intensity index.

The dental treatment needs of each child will be assessed based on the following categories:

1. None: no restorative treatment required.
2. Simple: preventive treatment required, such as scaling and brushing, oral hygiene instruction (OHI), application of topical fluoride and fissure sealant.
3. Moderate: one or more of teeth require one or two surface restoration.
4. Complex: one or more teeth require three or four surface restoration / stainless steel crown, endodontic therapy and crown, and /or extraction(7) .

Reasons for first dental visit will be categories as :

a. Adaptive visit dental check-up preventive purpose. b. Tooth pain. c. Emergency case (tooth injury, abscess, infection). d. Decay noted by parent.

e. Any Other. We will explain to the parents and legal guardians the aim of the study without any guiding to prevent any information bias which may occur. The questionnaire will be given before the treatment and will be collected after it. Any children whose records will include missing information will be excluded from the study.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 1

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Egypt
  • Giza
    • El-Sheikh Zayed City, Giza, Egypt, 002
      • Aya Abdelmawgoud Elsanhouri

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 3 years to 12 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

We are going to provide each parent or guardian whose children fulfilling the inclusion criteria attending to Department of Paediatrics Dentistry at Cairo University to fulfil questionnaire which include multiple MCQ questions. We will explain to the parents and legal guardians the aim of the study without any guiding to prevent any information bias which may occur. The questionnaire will be given before the treatment and will be collected after it. Any children whose records will include missing information will be excluded from the study.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Children with Primary and mixed dentition.
• Children visiting the dentist for the first time (first dental visit

Exclusion Criteria:

• Children with systemic diseases or physical and mental problem.
• Children whose parents refuse participation

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
reasons for the first dental visit.	There are different reasons for the first dental visit these reasons may be due to a- Adaptive visit dental check-up preventive purpose. b. Tooth pain. c. Emergency case (tooth injury, abscess, infection). d. Decay noted by parent. e. Any Other. Caregiver will be asked to fill a questionnaire include multiple reasons. The parents or Guardian select the most chief complain for coming to the first dental visit. And after selection the most common reason will determine.	1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
age	Caregiver will be asked to fill a questionnaire include multiple age. The parents or Guardian select the most optimal age for the first dental visit from their point of view .	1 years
oral health	The state of oral health will be assessed based on clinical examination, according to recommendations of the World Health Organization. The total number of teeth and number of teeth affected by decay (d, D) in every child will be recorded. The intensity of caries will be estimated based on the average dmf/DMF number, i.e. caries intensity index.	1 years
dental treatment needs	Dental treatment needs will be assessed based on clinical examination, according to recommendations of the World Health Organization. The dental treatment needs of each child will be assessed based on the following categories: None: no restorative treatment required.; Simple: preventive treatment required, such as scaling and brushing, oral hygiene instruction (OHI), application of topical fluoride and fissure sealant.; Moderate: one or more of teeth require one or two surface restoration. D-Complex: one or more teeth require three or four surface restoration / stainless steel crown, endodontic therapy and crown, and /or extraction.	1 years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Cairo University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: aya elsnhouri, bachelor, Cairo University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Anticipated): March 1, 2020
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): October 1, 2020
• Study Completion (Anticipated): March 1, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 26, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 30, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): December 3, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): February 5, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 2, 2020
• Last Verified: December 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: oral health; first dental visit; reasons of first dental visit; dental treatment needs
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Stomatognathic Diseases; Tooth Demineralization; Tooth Diseases; Dental Caries
• Other Study ID Numbers: Cairo university ,Egypt

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No