**DESCRIPTION**
These files contain the data and the research script about the effectiveness of the 38% silver diamine fluoride (SDF, SDI Riva Star) and Tiefenfluorid (TF, Humanchemie GmbH), using two different application protocols in children ≤71 months of age with early childhood caries, with a focus on patient-centred outcomes including major complications (pain, abscess, extraction) and minor complications (lesion progression).
**KEYWORDS**
silver diamine fluoride, non-invasive caries management, early childhood caries, randomised controlled trial, patient-centered outcomes research
**CONTACT**
Sergio Uribe, sergio.uribe@rsu.lv
**CREATION DATE** (yyyy-mm-dd)
2023-02-25
**GRANT/FUNDING ASSOCIATED**
This research was financed by Postdoc Latvia, 1.1.1.2/VIAA/3/19/543, contract no 9.-14.5/27. S.E.U. acknowledges financial support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 857287.
**FILES**
01_readme.txt
02_codebook.html
03_dataset.csv
Contains the original raw data
04_r_exploratory.Rmd
Contains the descriptive and exploratory analysis script in rmarkdown format to be read using Rstudio.
05_r_regression.Rmd
Contains the regression modelling in rmarkdown format to be read using Rstudio.
**PREREQUISITES TO REPLICATE THE ANALYSIS**
To recreate the analysis you need to
1. to install the pacman package in R
2. Create a folder called "figures" where the figures will be saved.
3. Create a folder called "data" and store there a copy of the dataset
4. Run the R script
