Fluoride Therapies on Hypersensitive Carious Lesions in Primary Teeth

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2021-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This observational cohort study aims to evaluate the short-term (3 months) efficacy of the standard fluoride therapy in the German National Health System for managing hypersensitive carious lesions in primary teeth (fluoride varnish application), and further compare it to a different fluoride therapy utilizing a silver-containing fluoride agent combined with potassium iodide solution.

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Medicine Greifswald
• Collaborator: SDI Limited
• Treatments: Fluorides; Fluorides, Topical; Listerine; Sodium Fluoride; Sodium fluoride topical preparation

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Reported hypersensitivity in primary teeth associated with the presence of active carious lesions (ICDAS 5).

• Healthy children aged 2-5 years.

• Not using any desensitizer for 1-month prior the study.

• Willing to be examined.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Previously restored teeth.

• Teeth with signs or symptoms of irreversible pulpitis.

• Patients with any systemic disease requiring special considerations during their dental treatment.

• Parents/children who declined to participate in the study.