Minimally invasive approach to manage early childhood caries in Aboriginal preschoolers

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1121982

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The treatment of dental decay in young children is often undertaken in a hospital, which is costly and risky. A treatment approach tested among a non-Aboriginal preschool population in WA, using hand instruments only and without the use of local anaesthesia, showed nearly a ten-fold reduction in the need for specialist dental care. This study will test the effectiveness of dental treatment of preschool children in rural and remote Aboriginal communities, using the alternative approach.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 01-01-2021

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $1,488,220.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Dentistry not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

dental caries | dental public health | dental treatments | dentistry | preventive dentistry

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