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Efficiency of chewable toothbrush in reduction of dental plaque in students
BACKGROUND: Besides classical and electrical toothbrushes market offers tooth brushes that can be chewed, like chewing gums. The aim of this study was to show the effectiveness of chewable toothbrush versus a conventional brush in the students’ population. METHODS: The prospective study included 346...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6471865/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30999898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-019-0748-y |
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author | Mladenovic, Rasa Cvetkovic, Andrijana Martinovic, Brankica Mladenovic, Kristina Zivkovic, Milan Arsic, Zoran Mladenovic, Sasa Lukovic, Tanja Zecevic Dakovic, Dragana |
author_facet | Mladenovic, Rasa Cvetkovic, Andrijana Martinovic, Brankica Mladenovic, Kristina Zivkovic, Milan Arsic, Zoran Mladenovic, Sasa Lukovic, Tanja Zecevic Dakovic, Dragana |
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description | BACKGROUND: Besides classical and electrical toothbrushes market offers tooth brushes that can be chewed, like chewing gums. The aim of this study was to show the effectiveness of chewable toothbrush versus a conventional brush in the students’ population. METHODS: The prospective study included 346 students. For this research, we used a e-questionnaire for “smart” phones, that students completed outside the dental office. Respondents are divided into two groups: control group used conventional toothbrushes, respondents from the tested group used chewable toothbrush. For assessment of accumulation of the plaque we used TQHI index. For testing statistical hypotheses, the following were used: t-test for two independent samples and analysis of the variance of repeated measurements. RESULTS: Before brushing teeth, the average TQHI value for chewable brushes is 2.8 ± 0.3, while conventional is 2.7 ± 0.3, which is not a statistically significant difference (p = 0.448). After brushing teeth, the average TQHI value for chewable brushes is 2.0 ± 0.1, while conventional 2.0 ± 0.3, which is also not statistically significant (p = 0.729). Observing the index of the plaque values on the tooth surfaces in the upper jaw, in both groups, there was a statistically significant change in the amount of plaque in time (p < 0.001). There is a statistically significant interaction between groups and changes in the amount of plaque in the observed period (p = 0.013). CONCLUSIONS: The fact that there is no significant difference in the effectiveness of the tested brushes indicates the benefits of using chewable toothbrushes in order to reduce plaque, primarily in the inability to use conventional brushes. |
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spelling | pubmed-64718652019-04-24 Efficiency of chewable toothbrush in reduction of dental plaque in students Mladenovic, Rasa Cvetkovic, Andrijana Martinovic, Brankica Mladenovic, Kristina Zivkovic, Milan Arsic, Zoran Mladenovic, Sasa Lukovic, Tanja Zecevic Dakovic, Dragana BMC Oral Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Besides classical and electrical toothbrushes market offers tooth brushes that can be chewed, like chewing gums. The aim of this study was to show the effectiveness of chewable toothbrush versus a conventional brush in the students’ population. METHODS: The prospective study included 346 students. For this research, we used a e-questionnaire for “smart” phones, that students completed outside the dental office. Respondents are divided into two groups: control group used conventional toothbrushes, respondents from the tested group used chewable toothbrush. For assessment of accumulation of the plaque we used TQHI index. For testing statistical hypotheses, the following were used: t-test for two independent samples and analysis of the variance of repeated measurements. RESULTS: Before brushing teeth, the average TQHI value for chewable brushes is 2.8 ± 0.3, while conventional is 2.7 ± 0.3, which is not a statistically significant difference (p = 0.448). After brushing teeth, the average TQHI value for chewable brushes is 2.0 ± 0.1, while conventional 2.0 ± 0.3, which is also not statistically significant (p = 0.729). Observing the index of the plaque values on the tooth surfaces in the upper jaw, in both groups, there was a statistically significant change in the amount of plaque in time (p < 0.001). There is a statistically significant interaction between groups and changes in the amount of plaque in the observed period (p = 0.013). CONCLUSIONS: The fact that there is no significant difference in the effectiveness of the tested brushes indicates the benefits of using chewable toothbrushes in order to reduce plaque, primarily in the inability to use conventional brushes. BioMed Central 2019-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6471865/ /pubmed/30999898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-019-0748-y Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Mladenovic, Rasa Cvetkovic, Andrijana Martinovic, Brankica Mladenovic, Kristina Zivkovic, Milan Arsic, Zoran Mladenovic, Sasa Lukovic, Tanja Zecevic Dakovic, Dragana Efficiency of chewable toothbrush in reduction of dental plaque in students |
title | Efficiency of chewable toothbrush in reduction of dental plaque in students |
title_full | Efficiency of chewable toothbrush in reduction of dental plaque in students |
title_fullStr | Efficiency of chewable toothbrush in reduction of dental plaque in students |
title_full_unstemmed | Efficiency of chewable toothbrush in reduction of dental plaque in students |
title_short | Efficiency of chewable toothbrush in reduction of dental plaque in students |
title_sort | efficiency of chewable toothbrush in reduction of dental plaque in students |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6471865/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30999898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-019-0748-y |
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