Effectiveness of SDF With Different Post-treatment Protocols in Arresting Dental Caries

Launched by THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG · Dec 8, 2022

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Methods: The randomized clinical trial will recruit 254 healthy kindergarten children aged 3-4 years old with caries and with parental consent. All the tooth surfaces with carious lesions will receive the semi-annual application of 38% SDF solution. After the treatment, children will be allocated to two groups by an independent research assistant. Two post-treatment protocols are as follows.

Group A - Children are instructed to rinse their teeth with a cup of water containing about 50 ml immediately after SDF treatment. Afterwards, no post-treatment protocol is given to children.

Group B ...

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ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • 1. 3-5 year old children attending the first to the third year of kindergarten;
• • 2. free from any systemic conditions and generally healthy;
• • 3. parents sign informed consent;
• • 4. having at least 1 tooth with cavitated dentine carious lesion
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • 1. are uncooperative to accept oral examination or treatment;
• • 2. have a significant systematic disease or long-term medications;
• • 3. have abnormal dentition.
• • 4. Teeth having signs or symptoms of irreversible pulpitis and non-vitality will be excluded.