NCT00719238

A Pilot Study to Promote Maternal and Infant Oral Health

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 121 (actual)
• Sponsor: UConn Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The long term goals of this project are to develop and implement a combined prenatal and postnatal intervention to decrease early childhood caries. The program is based on risk assessment, diet intervention and counseling. To accomplish these goals a pilot study is needed to determine: 1) The ability to recruit and retain pregnant mothers in an intervention program; 2) The levels of S. mutans in pregnant mothers; 3) The ability of a diet intervention to decrease S. mutans in pregnant mothers.

Conditions

• Dental Caries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Nutrition plus education	Nutritional instruction in small groups plus education
BEHAVIORAL	Education only	Educational video and pamphlets

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-01-01
• Primary completion: 2008-05-01
• Completion: 2008-07-01
• First posted: 2008-07-21
• Last updated: 2008-07-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States