Trial reportContemporary clinical trials2017
Do baby teeth really matter? Changing parental perception and increasing dental care utilization for young children.
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- Management strategies for posterior deciduous and permanent teeth with developmental defects of enamel presenting post-eruptive breakdown or atypical cavitated carious lesions: systematic review and meta-analysis.Evidence-based dentistry · 2025Pooled it
- Caries disparities among Medicaid-enrolled young children from pediatric primary care settings.Journal of public health dentistry · 2021Trial
- Randomized Trial Based on the Common-Sense Model of Self-regulation to Increase Child Dental Visits.JDR clinical and translational research · 2019Trial
- Barriers to Oral Health Care in Children: Determinants of Dental Neglect.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- The Effect of Caries on the Chewing Ability of Children: A Scoping Review.European journal of dentistry · 2023Article
- Association between lack of dental service utilisation and caregiver-reported caries in Australian Indigenous children: A national survey.Journal of paediatrics and child health · 2022Article
- Planning, implementation, and evaluation of educational intervention based on PRECEDE-PROCEED model for mothers about oral health promotion on children aged 3-6 years.Journal of education and health promotion · 2022Article
- A Formative Assessment of Social Determinants of Health Related to Early Childhood Caries in Two American Indian Communities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Formative and Pilot Study for an Effectiveness-Implementation Hybrid Cluster Randomized Trial to Incorporate Oral Health Activities into Pediatric Well-Child Visits.Dentistry journal · 2020Article
- Pediatric dental care use and parent- or caregiver-rated oral health among Alabama children enrolled in Medicaid.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2020Article
- Impact of oral health on Australian urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families: a qualitative study.International journal for equity in health · 2019Article
- A Preexperimental Study to Assess the Impact of an Interdisciplinary Educational Intervention on Nurses' Knowledge of Perinatal and Infant Oral Health Care.Journal of International Society of Preventive & Community DentistryArticle
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Abstract
introductionParent/caregivers' inability to recognize the importance of baby teeth has been associated with inadequate self-management of children's oral health (i.e. lower likelihood of preventive dental visits) which may result in dental caries and the need for more expensive caries-related restorative treatment under general anesthesia. Health behavior theories aid researchers in understanding the impact and effectiveness of interventions on changing health behaviors and health outcomes. One example is the Common-Sense Model of Self-Regulation (CSM) which focuses on understanding an individual's illness perception (i.e. illness and treatment representations), and subsequently has been used to develop behavioral interventions to change inaccurate perceptions and describe the processes involved in behavior change.
methodsWe present two examples of randomized clinical trials that are currently testing oral health behavioral interventions to change parental illness perception and increase dental utilization for young children disproportionately impacted by dental caries in elementary schools and pediatric primary care settings. Additionally, we compared empiric data regarding parent/caregiver perception of the chronic nature of dental caries (captured by the illness perception questionnaire revised for dental: IPQ-RD constructs: identity, consequences, control, timeline, illness coherence, emotional representations) between parent/caregivers who did and did not believe baby teeth were important.
resultsCaregivers who believed that baby teeth don't matter had significantly (P<0.05) less accurate perception in the majority of the IPQ-RD constructs (except timeline construct) compared to caregivers who believed baby teeth do matter.
conclusionThese findings support our CSM-based behavioral interventions to modify caregiver caries perception, and improve dental utilization for young children.
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