Margherita Fontana, Divya Khera, Steven Levy, George Eckert, Barry Katz, Emily Yanca, Carlos González-Cabezas, Amr Moursi
Purpose: To assess the effectiveness of 38 percent silver diamine fluoride (SDF) in arresting cavitated caries lesions in young U.S. children. Methods: Children 12 to 71 months of age with severe early childhood caries participated in this phase three, multicenter, randomized, placebocontrolled trial. SDF was applied twice (at baseline and six months), and children were followed for eight months. A planned interim analysis of only the six-month primary outcome caries arrest data, for approximately half of the cohort (680 of 1,144 children), was conducted using a generalized estimating equation model, accounting for non-independence among carious lesions within a patient...
January 15, 2024: Pediatric Dentistry