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Article

The Effect of a Personalized Oral Health Education Program on Periodontal Health in an At-Risk Population: A Randomized Controlled Trial

by
Eman S. Almabadi
1,2,
Adrian Bauman
3,4,
Rahena Akhter
1,
Jessica Gugusheff
3,
Joseph Van Buskirk
3,
Michelle Sankey
5,
Janet E. Palmer
6,
David J. Kavanagh
7,
Gregory J. Seymour
6,
Mary P. Cullinan
6 and
Joerg Eberhard
1,*
1
School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
2
Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics Department, College of Dentistry, Taibah University, Al Madinah Al Munawara 41477, Saudi Arabia
3
Prevention Research Collaboration, Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
4
School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
5
Oral Health Clinic, Logan Hospital, Meadowbrook, Queensland, QLD 4131, Australia
6
School of Dentistry, The University of Queensland, Herston, QLD 4072, Australia
7
Centre for Children’s Health Research and School of Psychology & Counselling, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), South Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(2), 846; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020846
Submission received: 2 December 2020 / Revised: 2 January 2021 / Accepted: 12 January 2021 / Published: 19 January 2021
(This article belongs to the Section Oral Health)
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Abstract

While periodontal disease is associated with many risk factors, socioeconomically disadvantaged communities experience the highest disease burden. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a personalized oral health education program, in combination with routine dental treatment, in participants from a low socioeconomic community. We used a randomized, controlled, examiner-blinded clinical trial. A total of 579 participants (aged 18–60 years) were randomly grouped: the intervention group (n = 292) received a personalized oral health education program in combination with routine dental care and the control group (n = 287) received routine dental care. All participants were assessed for improvement in oral health care behaviors, dental plaque, and periodontal status at baseline, 12 months, and 24 months. We found a significant drop (p < 0.001) in the plaque indices, Periodontal Probing Depths (PPD) and Bleeding on Probing (BOP) between baseline and the 12-month follow-up for both groups. For BOP, the number of sites positive was significantly different between baseline and the 24-month follow-up (p = 0.037). No differences were found between the two groups for any evaluated clinical outcome. The personalized oral health education program used in the current study did not appear to add significant improvement to clinical outcomes of periodontal health compared with routine restorative dental care per se.
Keywords: oral health; randomized controlled trial; periodontal health; gingival bleeding; personalized education oral health; randomized controlled trial; periodontal health; gingival bleeding; personalized education

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Almabadi, E.S.; Bauman, A.; Akhter, R.; Gugusheff, J.; Van Buskirk, J.; Sankey, M.; Palmer, J.E.; Kavanagh, D.J.; Seymour, G.J.; Cullinan, M.P.; et al. The Effect of a Personalized Oral Health Education Program on Periodontal Health in an At-Risk Population: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 846. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020846

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Almabadi ES, Bauman A, Akhter R, Gugusheff J, Van Buskirk J, Sankey M, Palmer JE, Kavanagh DJ, Seymour GJ, Cullinan MP, et al. The Effect of a Personalized Oral Health Education Program on Periodontal Health in an At-Risk Population: A Randomized Controlled Trial. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(2):846. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020846

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Almabadi, Eman S., Adrian Bauman, Rahena Akhter, Jessica Gugusheff, Joseph Van Buskirk, Michelle Sankey, Janet E. Palmer, David J. Kavanagh, Gregory J. Seymour, Mary P. Cullinan, and et al. 2021. "The Effect of a Personalized Oral Health Education Program on Periodontal Health in an At-Risk Population: A Randomized Controlled Trial" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 2: 846. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020846

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Almabadi, E. S., Bauman, A., Akhter, R., Gugusheff, J., Van Buskirk, J., Sankey, M., Palmer, J. E., Kavanagh, D. J., Seymour, G. J., Cullinan, M. P., & Eberhard, J. (2021). The Effect of a Personalized Oral Health Education Program on Periodontal Health in an At-Risk Population: A Randomized Controlled Trial. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(2), 846. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020846

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