The Use of Silver Fluoride for Oral Health and Well-Being in Aged Care Residents: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Diep Ha   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Lydia See   ^{1 *} , DCD ;   Claudia Lopez Silva   ¹ , DCD ;   Helena Schuch   ¹ , PhD ;   Cheuk Kee Fung   ¹ , DCD ;   Lyndal Pritchard   ¹ , BAppHSc ;   Angelique Zamora   ^{1, 2} , BSc ;   Ruvini Manjula Hettiarachchi   ³ , PhD ;   Christopher Sexton   ^{1, 4} , MBiostat ;   Nicole Walker   ¹ , PhD ;   Julie D Henry   ⁵ , PhD ;   Kristiana Ludlow   ⁶ , PhD ;   Matthew Nangle   ¹ , PhD ;   Nicole Stormon   ¹ , PhD ;   Saso Ivanovski   ¹ , PhD ;   Andrew Georgiou   ⁷ , PhD ;   Haitham Tuffaha   ³ , PhD ;   Sadaf Khan   ¹ , PhD ;   Thu Thi Kieu Le   ¹ , PhD ;   Laurence J Walsh   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Loc G Do   ^{1 *} , PhD

¹ School of Dentistry, The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia

² School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

³ Centre for the Business and Economics of Health, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

⁴ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

⁵ School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

⁶ Centre for Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia

⁷ Centre for Health Systems & Safety Research, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park, New South Wales, Australia

*these authors contributed equally