University of Pennsylvania
Dental caries (tooth decay) is the world's most prevalent noncommunicable disease. Current preventive and therapeutic treatments are available that can be provided in a school-based health service environment. However, not all children respond to care, and school programs can result in under- or over-treatment, leaving children at high risk. The Building Adaptive School-based Interventions for Caries (BASICS) study will identify the optimal sequence and intensity of these treatments to minimize nonresponse, creating adaptive interventions tailored to specific needs in order to personalize school-based dental medicine.
Dental caries is the world's most prevalent noncommunicable disease, with considerable health disparities found in low-income rural white children and low-income urban Hispanic/Latino and black children. To combat this silent epidemic, school-based caries prevention can increase access to critical dental care, reducing caries risk and mitigating its severe health and socioemotional consequences. However, despite the use of evidence-based interventions, approximately 30% of children participating in school-based caries prevention fail to respond to treatment ("nonresponse"), developing new cari…
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Be enrolled in participating schools 2. Be between the ages of 5 and 13 years 3. Provide parental/guardian informed consent 4. Child assent Exclusion Criteria: 1. Ulcerative gingivitis or stomatitis 2. Known sensitivity to silver or other heavy-metal ions 3. More than six affected sites 4. Those who have had full mouth gingivectomies 5. Patients showing abnormal skin sensitization in daily circumstances 6. Those who have had pulp capping
Topically applied silver diamine fluoride 38% solution
GIC Dental Sealants
Topically applied fluoride varnish (FV)
Behavioral intervention to improve dental hygiene
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