Effectiveness of professional toothbrushing on care home residents - a randomized controlled intervention study
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- oral healthroot caries
- Registration Number
- DRKS00010767
- Lead Sponsor
- niversität zu Köln
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 80
Inclusion Criteria
Care home residents St. Elizabeth, care level I-III, dement and non-dement, own consent of participate or consent of lawful deputy, at least 4 teeth left,
Exclusion Criteria
life-threatening illness or condition close to death, professional tooth cleaning at the begin of the study not possible according to health condition or dementia, forseeable loss of left tooth according to already diagnosed inflammation/ loosening of the teeth, toothless jaws, diabetes mellitus with HbA1c < 7.5, risk of endocarditis with necessary antibiotic screening prior to dental treatments, persons dependend on/ in employment contract with sponsor or examiner
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Gingivitis-Score (Silness&Löe), Plaque-Score (Quigley&Hein) taken every 14 days
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method umber of teeth, root caries lesions, need for dental treatment, time of strain, height of dental services, colonization of bacteria of used toothbrushes measured every 14 days, additionnally to These examination appointments. Amendment: there will be mucosal swabs in order to do qualitative and quantitative Analysis of candida albicans. Amendment approved by the ethics committee 07/12/2017, nr. 16-204)