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| ID | Type | Description | Link |
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| PN200703-001 | Other Grant/Funding Number | Delta Dental |
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| Name | Class |
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| Delta Dental Foundation | OTHER |
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This pilot project consists of co-locating dental hygienist services in medical primary care offices. Dental hygienists will work in close collaboration with the primary care offices, providing preventive dental care to young children either before or after scheduled well-child visits.
This investigation is designed to determine the effect of having co-located dental hygienists in primary care offices on the incidence of early childhood caries among young children seen at these primary care offices. The dental hygienists will provide routine preventive dental care and oral health education within the usual scope of their practice. The study is also designed to assess parent knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about oral health and perceived barriers to preventive dental care, as well as how their oral health-related attitudes change over time.
The specific aims for this project are:
Specific Aim 1: Among parents of young children seen in pediatric and family medicine primary care practices, determine the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of parents regarding the importance of oral health, means of preventing caries, and perceived barriers to accessing regular preventive dental care.
Specific Aim 2: After co-locating dental hygienists within pediatric and family medicine primary care practices, determine by randomized controlled trial the effect of routine preventive dental care provided by dental hygienists on the incidence of early childhood caries.
Specific Aim 3: Among parents of young children seen in pediatric and family medicine primary care practices, determine how parental oral health-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and perceived barriers change over time, among parents of children seen by a co-located dental hygienist.
The major hypotheses for this project are:
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| 1: Intervention Group | Experimental | All participants in the intervention group will be receiving standard preventive dental care received by children in their dental providers' office. These intervention children will receive dental scaling, cleaning and fluoride varnish at visits every three to six months. All participants in the intervention group will receive active reminder/recall from the hygienist, encouraging the participants to return every three to six months for the oral exam, cleaning, scaling and fluoride application. |
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| 2: Control Group | Active Comparator | The control group will receive usual care, but will not receive pre-scheduling, reminders, or care coordination by the dental hygienist. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Oral Health Care Early Intervention Project | Other | The intervention group will receive routine preventive dental care, 2 to 4 times per year depending on risk of caries. The intervention group will also receive pre-scheduling, reminders, and care coordination by the dental hygienist. The control group will receive usual care, but will not receive pre-scheduling, reminders, or care coordination by the dental hygienist. In order to determine the incidence of early childhood caries at study enrollment, both intervention and control groups will receive a standardized oral examination with an assessment of caries presence and extent on the day of enrollment, at 12 months and at 24 months after enrollment. Both children in the control group and intervention group will be referred to a dentist if found to need restorative care. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| New ECC*(presence/absence) | At end of study, 24 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Association of ECC with perceived barriers to accessing a dental provider. | Day 1 of entry into study | |
| Changes in parental knowledge, attitude, beliefs and barriers from pre- to post-study | At end of study, 24 months |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Children with the following characteristics will be included in the study:
Exclusion Criteria:
Children with the following characteristics will be excluded from the study:
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Matthew F. Daley, MD | University of Colorado, Denver | Principal Investigator |
| Patricia Braun, MD | University of Colorado, Denver | Study Director |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Rocky Mountain Youth | Aurora | Colorado | 80011 | United States | ||
| Grand Mesa Dental Hygiene, LLC |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 16121123 | Background | Beltran-Aguilar ED, Barker LK, Canto MT, Dye BA, Gooch BF, Griffin SO, Hyman J, Jaramillo F, Kingman A, Nowjack-Raymer R, Selwitz RH, Wu T; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Surveillance for dental caries, dental sealants, tooth retention, edentulism, and enamel fluorosis--United States, 1988-1994 and 1999-2002. MMWR Surveill Summ. 2005 Aug 26;54(3):1-43. | |
| Background | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General. 1-332. 2000. Rockville, MD, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health. Ref Type: Report | ||
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| Frequencies of parental knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and barriers (Descriptive variables: scales constructed of 4-point Likert items | Day 1 of entry into study |
| Severity of caries( presence/absence of S-ECC) | At end of study, 24 months |
| Delta |
| Colorado |
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| United States |
| Salud Family Health Centers | Fort Collins | Colorado | 80524 | United States |
| The Pediatric Associates | Montrose | Colorado | 81401 | United States |
| Rocky Mountain Youth | Thornton | Colorado | 80229 | United States |
| Background |
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