Chairside Mouthrinse Test and Cost Effectiveness
- Conditions
- Periodontitis, Juvenile
- Registration Number
- NCT04139863
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Helsinki
- Brief Summary
The aim is to study whether participants at risk could be identified using an aMMP-8 chairside mouth rinse test and to study if oral health and health behaviour is linked to the test result in Finnish adolescents.
- Detailed Description
Adolescents (14-15-year-olds) are randomly divided to control group and test group. Chairside mouth rinse test for aMMP-8 is performed for the test group. Two groups are compared with each other.
Participants are asked to fill a questionnaire which consists of questions concerning oral hygiene habits, tobacco products, alcohol, drug and snuff use.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 200
- All 8 class (aged 14-15 years) pupils in Jukola, Hämeenlinna, Finland
- Written informed consent from the participants and their parents (one of them)
- No written consent to the study
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method aMMP-8 test 1 year Mouth rinse samples are analysed by method for chair-side diagnostic testing: the aMMP-8 specific lateral-flow point-of-care (PoC)/chair-side test (PerioSafe®, Dentognostics GmbH, Jena, Germany). The result is provided in 5 minutes and is graded by eye as positive or negative. One line means that the test is negative but successfully done and two lines the test is positive.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
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Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Anna Maria Heikkinen
🇫🇮Helsinki, Helsinki University, Finland
Anna Maria Heikkinen🇫🇮Helsinki, Helsinki University, Finland