Research Articles (Paediatric Dentistry)

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    Acceptance of the use of silver fluoride among Brazilian parents of children with special health care needs
    (Frontiers Media SA, 2024) Potgieter,Nicoline; Charone,Senda; Elias R
    Background: Children with special health care needs including down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder and down syndrome experience difficulties in receiving dental treatment. silver diamine fluoride (SDF) and silver fluoride (SF) are a minimally invasive treatments options to arrest dental caries without sedation; local or general anaesthesia (GA). Aim: Evaluation of Brazilian's parents' acceptance of the use of SF in CSHCN. Methods: After receiving education on SF, 100 Parents of CSHCN completed a questionnaire concerning their acceptance of SF, in different dental situation. Result: Majority of parents (74,5%) agreed to the use of SF for their children. SF was more acceptable on posterior teeth (74,5%) when compared to its use on anterior teeth (43,1%). Parents accepted to use SF in order: to reduce infection and pain (82,4%); to avoid dental injection (72,5%) and treatment under GA (84,3%). The majority of parents accepted the properties of SF (82,4%) and silver (80,4%). Conclusion: silver fluoride was accepted as a treatment option for caries, by Brazilian parents of CSHCN. SF should be considered as a treatment option for caries limited to dentine for CSHCN, taking into consideration the individual needs and opinions with regard to aesthetics and exposure to fluoride and silver.
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    Effectiveness of oral health promotion in children and adolescents through behaviour change interventions: A scoping review
    (Public Library of Science, 2025) Peerbhay, Fathima; Khan, Saadika; Mash, Robert
    Objective To explore the interventions for change in oral health behaviour that are effective in improving oral health behaviours in 8 to 18-year-old children during oral health promotion. Methods The Joanna Briggs Institute framework of evidence synthesis for conducting a scoping review was implemented for the methodology. Included studies related to the objective, measured clinical or non-clinical outcomes, were in English, 2011–2023, and were experimental, observational or reviews. PUBMED, Science-Direct, Scopus and Sabinet were systematically searched with predetermined search strings. Studies were selected by appraisal of the title, abstract and full text. Data were extracted using a standardised template and the key questions were addressed via a qualitative analysis. Results Searches yielded 407 articles from electronic databases. Of these, 290 articles were excluded, and 47 full-text studies were assessed for eligibility, with 23 studies and two systematic reviews finalised for inclusion. In addition, a PEARL search was conducted from the reference lists of other studies. Most studies (91.3%) focused on educating children directly; 8.7% indirectly influenced parents, guardians, and teachers. Interventions focused largely on traditional oral health education presented in diverse forms and via different platforms. Studies differentiated clinical outcomes (indices) from non-clinical outcomes (knowledge, behaviour). All included RCTs were of different quality regarding selection, performance and detection bias. But all studies indicated a low risk of bias in attrition and Reporting bias. Seventeen of the 25 studies (68%) were not based on any behaviour change theory. Conclusions Oral health interventions based on motivational interviewing and the social cognitive theory have been shown to be to be effective. Interventions could also include practical tooth brushing activities, gamification, audio-visual components, as well as reinforcement and repetition in the longer term. Future oral health promotion in children should be designed to include these elements. There is a need for higher quality studies in this field, with future research being urged to provide detailed intervention descriptions and incorporate longer follow-up periods. © 2025 Peerbhay et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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    Principles and care pathways for caries management in children: IAPD Rome forum
    (John Wiley & Sons, 2024) Tinanoff, Norman; Potgieter, Nicoline; Banerjee, Avijit
    The traditional approaches to the treatment of dental caries have focused on repairing the consequences of the caries process, the lesions, rather than addressing the disease process itself. Advances in the understanding of caries microbiology, de-/remineralization cycling, risk/susceptibility assessment, staging of lesion activity/severity, non-surgical/micro-/minimally invasive procedures and public health interventions are fundamentally changing the landscape of caries management. To facilitate the global adoption of contemporary caries management for children, international experts were convened as part of an International Association of Paediatric Dentistry (IAPD) forum in Rome, in November 2022. This expert panel met for a one-day pre-conference workshop to discuss and consider principles of cariology and care pathways to improve oral health for individuals and healthcare systems. The topics discussed included advances in the science of cariology, advances in caries management, improving oral healthcare systems and teaching caries management. Such advances are especially important for children's oral health because of the value of establishing early preventive behaviours (including caregivers), difficulties of performing procedures in young children and inequalities/inequities in children's oral health care. The topics were presented over the two-and-a-half-day congress, and the feedback was collected. This position paper presents the summarized evidence collated by the expert panel and the IAPD Board of Directors.