Question · asked by 1 review
Oral-health promotion programs (OHPPs): community-based oral-health education/training, supervised toothbrushing with fluoride toothpaste and topical fluoride, dental screening, and dietary advice vs No oral-health promotion program, or a differing (usual-care) action under similar conditions: DMFT/DMFS index (dental caries experience)
- Population
- Children with dental caries
- Intervention
- Oral-health promotion programs (OHPPs): community-based oral-health education/training, supervised toothbrushing with fluoride toothpaste and topical fluoride, dental screening, and dietary advice
- Comparison
- No oral-health promotion program, or a differing (usual-care) action under similar conditions
- Outcome
- DMFT/DMFS index (dental caries experience)
Oral-health promotion programs were associated with markedly lower odds of DMFT/S in children (OR 0.19, 95% CI 0.10 to 0.39; ungraded, very high heterogeneity I2=98.5%).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Oral-health promotion programs (OHPPs): community-based oral-health education/training, supervised toothbrushing with fluoride toothpaste and topical fluoride, dental screening, and dietary advice vs No oral-health promotion program, or a differing (usual-care) action under similar conditions DMFT/DMFS index (dental caries experience) · Children aged 0-12 years (healthy except for dental caries) · Community settings: home visits, telephone contacts, healthcare centers, and primary schools Oral-health promotion programs were associated with markedly lower odds of DMFT/S in children (OR 0.19, 95% CI 0.10 to 0.39; ungraded, very high heterogeneity I2=98.5%). Clinical Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Oral-Health Promotion in Dental Caries Prevention among… (2019) All outcomes | OR 0.19 [0.10, 0.39] | 8 studies | GRADE not reported |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Oral-Health Promotion in Dental Caries Prevention among Children: Systematic Review and… 2019 All outcomes | 11 December 2018 (search initiated) | 29 | Critically Low / Critically Low |
Related questions
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Studies behind the findings
The primary studies the full-text reviews tie to this outcome. Reviews with headline outcomes only do not list them here.
- Evaluation of the child oral health promotion 'MaliMali' Programme based on schools in the Kingdom of Tonga. · 2017 · included by 1 of these review
- A randomised controlled trial to measure the effects and costs of a dental caries prevention regime for young children attending primary… · 2016 · included by 1 of these review
- Improving Child Oral Health: Cost Analysis of a National Nursery Toothbrushing Programme. · 2015 · included by 1 of these review
- Cost‐effectiveness of an experimental caries‐control regimen in a 3.4‐yr randomized clinical trial among 11–12‐yr‐old Finnish schoolchildren · 2009 · included by 1 of these review
- Cost-effectiveness of a long-term dental health education program for the prevention of early childhood caries · 2006 · included by 1 of these review
- An assessment of the cost effectiveness of a postal toothpaste programme to prevent caries among five-year-old children in the North West… · 2003 · included by 1 of these review
- Donaldson 1986 · included by 1 of these review
- O'Neill 2017 · included by 1 of these review
How reviews are matched to this question
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