NCT03873753

Relationship Between Oral Hygiene in Newborns and Candida Spp.

Relationship Between Oral Hygiene in Newborns and Candida Spp.: A Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 276 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Faculty Sao Leopoldo Mandic Campinas · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Days
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Little is known regarding the effectiveness of neonatal oral hygiene and its relationship to colonization by Candida spp. in edentulous oral cavities. Thus, the objective of this study is to evaluate whether the oral hygiene of edentulous infants favors colonization by Candida spp. Newborns with up to 48 hours of life will randomly allocated to two groups. The mothers will instructed to clean the oral cavity with gauze and mineral water three times a day, in the test group, and not to clean, in the control group.

Conditions

• Candidiasis, Oral

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Cleaning	Gauze and mineral water
OTHER	No oral cleaning	Absence of cleaning

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-05-02
• Primary completion: 2020-07-31
• Completion: 2020-12-30
• First posted: 2019-03-13
• Last updated: 2019-03-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil