NCT03763578

Dental Caries Prevention by a Natural Product

Licorice Versus Standard Preventive Measures for the Prevention of Caries Incidence in Young Egyptian Adults: Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 81 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective is to conduct an RCT to evaluate the effectiveness of Licorice in comparison to standard caries preventive measures for the prevention of new carious lesions in high caries risk patients.

Detailed description

Research hypothesis (Null hypothesis): The present clinical trial will be conducted to reject or accept the null hypothesis that using Licorice extract mouth wash in addition to standard preventive measures will not differ from using standard preventive measures alone in preventing incidence of new carious lesions. PICOTS: P: Population with high caries risk patients I: Use of licorice. I2: Use of chlorhexidine C: Use of standard preventive measures (tooth brushing, tooth paste, interdental cleaning). O.1: Primary outcome is incidence of new carious lesions T: Time for measurement is 12 months S: A Randomized controlled clinical trial (Parallel study)

Conditions

• Dental Caries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Licorice	Natural herbal product

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-01
• Completion: 2021-12-30
• First posted: 2018-12-04
• Last updated: 2022-02-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt