Effect of Dental Treatment on Children's Growth
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interventional
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Brief Summary
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.
Trial Health
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participants targeted
Target at P75+ for phase_1
Started Feb 2007
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
February 1, 2007
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
January 1, 2008
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
January 1, 2008
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
November 18, 2010
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
November 19, 2010
CompletedNovember 19, 2010
January 1, 2008
11 months
November 18, 2010
November 18, 2010
Conditions
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Children's height and weight (HAZ,WAZ and BAZ)
children's height and weight were measured pre and 6 months post dental treatment.
6 months
Secondary Outcomes (1)
Quality of life (pain, sepsis, satisfaction and appetite)
6 months
Study Arms (2)
Early treatment
EXPERIMENTALcomprehensive dental treatment
Regualr treatment
NO INTERVENTIONRegular treatment consisted of children who would be on a waiting list for regular dental treatment at KFAFH for at least 8 months
Interventions
Early treatment children were scheduled for comprehensive dental treatment over a 2-month period (from May to June 2007). All test children had their last dental treatment visit within the last 2 weeks of the second treatment month. The follow-up survey was scheduled for each child to be approximately 6-month after their dental last visit. This step was very important to make sure that all children were examined at exactly the same interval between end of treatment and when re-examined at the follow-up examination.
Regular treatment did not receive any dental treatment in the period when the early children were treated unless they had toothache or dental infection. In that case they were treated for the pain but did not have comprehensive dental treatment
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Having dental caries with at least 2 teeth with pulpal involvement.
You may not qualify if:
- Children with illness known to adversely affect growth.
- Children who required urgent dental treatment.
- Children on regular nutritional supplements.
- Anaemic children with Hb levels lower than 11.0 g/dl
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Related Publications (1)
Alkarimi HA, Watt RG, Pikhart H, Jawadi AH, Sheiham A, Tsakos G. Impact of treating dental caries on schoolchildren's anthropometric, dental, satisfaction and appetite outcomes: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 2012 Aug 29;12:706. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-706.
PMID: 22928903DERIVED
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- STUDY DIRECTOR
Hiba A Alkarimi, PhD
KFAFH
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- phase 1
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- SINGLE
- Who Masked
- OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
- Purpose
- TREATMENT
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER GOV
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
November 18, 2010
First Posted
November 19, 2010
Study Start
February 1, 2007
Primary Completion
January 1, 2008
Study Completion
January 1, 2008
Last Updated
November 19, 2010
Record last verified: 2008-01