Clinical Trial: Involving Parents to Improve Tooth Brushing for Autistic Children.

U.S., March 5 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT06855693) titled 'Involving Parents to Improve Tooth Brushing for Autistic Children.' on Feb. 19.

Brief Summary: Parents of autistic children have reported a lack of understanding by oral health care staff around delivery of oral health preventive habits for their children.

This study aims to investigate if oral healthcare training utilising the Mini Mouth Care Matters (MCM) programme designed for Special Education Settings (SES) enhances parent confidence in their ability to influence their child's oral health, increases toothbrushing episodes and reduces challenging toothbrushing behaviour of autistic children.

The participants of this study will...