The aim is to study whether participants at risk could be identified using an aMMP-8 chairside mouth rinse test and to study if oral health and health behaviour is linked to the test result in Finnish adolescents.
Adolescents (14-15-year-olds) are randomly divided to control group and test group. Chairside mouth rinse test for aMMP-8 is performed for the test group. Two groups are compared with each other. Participants are asked to fill a questionnaire which consists of questions concerning oral hygiene habits, tobacco products, alcohol, drug and snuff use.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
200
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Anna Maria Heikkinen
Helsinki, Helsinki University, Finland
aMMP-8 test
Mouth rinse samples are analysed by method for chair-side diagnostic testing: the aMMP-8 specific lateral-flow point-of-care (PoC)/chair-side test (PerioSafe®, Dentognostics GmbH, Jena, Germany). The result is provided in 5 minutes and is graded by eye as positive or negative. One line means that the test is negative but successfully done and two lines the test is positive.
Time frame: 1 year
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