Fluoride Intake From Toothbrushig With Children's or Regular Toothpastes

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

There are controversial data about fluoride intake by children when tooth brushing with children's or regular toothpastes. However, a study have showed that children were exposed to a dose of 0.051 mg F/Kg/day and 0.046 mg F/kg/day by tooth brushing with children's and and regular toothpaste, respectively. Fluorides doses were too close and is questioned if there is a real clinical relevance in terms of risk of dental fluorosis. It is important to evaluate if children's toothpastes does really represent a risk of fluoride intake when compared to the regular toothpastes in terms of risk of dental fluorosis. The hypothesis is that both children's and regular toothpastes can represente risks of development of dental fluorosis and can represent similar fluoride exposure by children.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Federal University of Minas Gerais
• Collaborators: Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do estado de Minas Gerais; State University of Montes Claros; University of Campinas, Brazil
• Treatments: Fluorides

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Consent demonstrates understanding of the study and willingness to participate as evidenced by voluntary written of informed consent and has received a signed and dated copy of the informed consent form.

2. Age up to 48 months.

3. Compliance understands of the study and ability to comply with the study procedures.

4. Good oral health as considered by the investigator.

5. Good general health as considered by the investigator, with no clinically significant and/or relevant abnormalities of medical history.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Children aging older than 48 months or younger of 6 months.

2. Parents who do not allow the child's participation.

3. Children that refuse to follow the study procedure.

4. Volunteers that do not complete the whole study protocol.