NCT02798809

GENOA ORAL GROWTH LONGITUDINAL STUDY (GeOrGS)

GENOA ORAL GROWTH STUDY: Longitudinal Investigation of Preschool and Primary School Children

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 270 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Genova · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 3 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to follow a group of preschool children from early permanent dentition to determine the prevalence and incidence of caries malocclusions and to investigated the related risk factors as age, gender, ethnic origin and non-nutritive sucking habits, breathing disturbances, allergies, Dietary habits, oral hygiene status and dental care.

Detailed description

Once a year a clinical examination were performed. Data were collected with a questionnaire, that was filled out by the parents before the clinical examination, which included questions on child's clinical history, the type of feeding, the use of baby-bottle, the history of non-nutritive sucking habits (dummy-sucking and digit sucking) and the consent to the clinical examination. Two World Health Organization (WHO) calibrated examiners carried out the clinical examinations. They were blinded to the information collected from the parental questionnaires. Dental examinations were performed in a classroom environment under natural light, using gloves and masks in compliance with the infection control protocol, mouth mirrors and disposable paper rulers to measure overjet and overbite (in millimeters). The occlusion was assessed in centric occlusion and was classified according to Foster and Hamilton criteria \[Foster and Hamilton, 1969\] Radiographic examination was not performed.

Conditions

• Malocclusion
• Dental Caries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Clinical dental examination	Clinical dental examination and a questionnaire that was filled out by the parents before each clinical examination.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-04-01
• Primary completion: 2020-01-01
• Completion: 2020-01-01
• First posted: 2016-06-14
• Last updated: 2019-06-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy