Group | Intervention | Description of Intervention | No. of schools |
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1 | 'Traditional' | Inspections conducted against a checklist of treatment need criteria. Personalised letter for every child, tailored to the confirmed registration status of the child prompting registration where necessary was sent home via the child in sealed, personally addressed envelopes with a list of local GDPs accepting NHS child patients. | 15 |
2 | Letter only | As above, but no dental inspection conducted. | 14 |
3 | NDIP | Inspections conducted against a checklist of treatment need criteria. Personalised letter for every child – not tailored to the confirmed registration status of the child – was sent home via the child in sealed, personally addressed envelopes with a list of local GDPs accepting NHS child patients. | 16 |
4 | Control | Children in the schools allocated to this group received neither a dental inspection nor a letter home until after the end of the study. | 16 |