Cost-effectiveness of child caries management: a randomised controlled trial (FiCTION trial)
BMC Oral Healthvolume 20, Article number: 45 (2020)
Abstract
Background
A
three-arm parallel group, randomised controlled trial set in general
dental practices in England, Scotland, and Wales was undertaken to
evaluate three strategies to manage dental caries in primary teeth.
Children, with at least one primary molar with caries into dentine, were
randomised to receive Conventional with best practice prevention
(C + P), Biological with best practice prevention (B + P), or best
practice Prevention Alone (PA).
Methods Data on costs were collected via case report forms completed by clinical staff at every visit. The co-primary outcomes were incidence of, and number of episodes of, dental pain and/or infection avoided. The three strategies were ranked in order of …
Methods Data on costs were collected via case report forms completed by clinical staff at every visit. The co-primary outcomes were incidence of, and number of episodes of, dental pain and/or infection avoided. The three strategies were ranked in order of …
