Maternal Oral Therapy to Reduce Obstetric Risk Kids

Completed

Conditions studied: Periodontitis, Autism, Premature Infants

In brief

The principal objective was to conduct a 5 year; multi-center, observational follow-up study enrolling infants born to mothers who participated in the MOTOR clinical trial to determine the effects of maternal periodontal therapy during pregnancy on neonatal morbidity and mortality and whether this will result in lower incidence of functional neurological impairment.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03423836

Run by

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

People needed

331

Starts

2007-04-30

Expected to finish

2013-01-11

Last updated by the study team

2018-02-14

Who can join

Age: 0 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• All infants born to mothers enrolled to MOTOR study prior to 35 weeks gestational age,
• All small for gestational age (SGA) infants and all infants born after 37 weeks gestation and who were appropriate for gestational age are eligible for enrollment.
• All infants born < 34 weeks gestation and all SGA infants will be considered a high risk infant and will be recruited for enrollment.
• Appropriate weight for gestational age infants born after 37 weeks will be considered low risk infants and a random sample of these infants will be recruited for enrollment.

You may not qualify if…

• Only a random sample of the low risk group will be recruited.

Where it is running

• University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Ostetrics and Gynecology — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• Department of Periodontology, UNC School of Dentistry — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
• Duke University — Durham, North Carolina, United States
• University of Texas Health Science Center — San Antonio, Texas, United States

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