Volume : 6, Issue : 6, June - 2017

A Clinical comparative study evaluating plaque removing efficacy of four different types of toothbrush

Dr. Vineeta Gupta, Dr. Vartika Katoch, Dr. Sonal Wakhale, Dr. Brajendra Kumar

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<b style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;line-height:&#10;115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Objective: </span></b><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">The aim of the study is to compare the plaque removing efficacy of four different types of manual toothushes with the objective of evaluating the effect of these different toothushes on gingival health.</span><b style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:&#10;12.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Materials and Methods:</span></b><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> A total o</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">f 200 subjects</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">(75</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> males and 125 females) participated in the study.&nbsp; Subjects who participated in the study demonstrated great variations in their ability to clean their teeth and were presumably dependent on manual dexterity, and ability to follow instructions. Based on the use of toothush they were categorized into four different groups.&nbsp; Plaque index and Gingival index were recorded at baseline, 1^st week, 2^nd week, 3^rd week and 4^th week</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> at six sites.</span><b style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;line-height:&#10;115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Results:</span></b><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">The comparison of four toothushes with respect to baseline, 1^stweek, 2^ndweek, 3^rdweek, and 4^th week</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">,</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> Plaque scores and Gingival score showed a significant decrease in all parameters at all time intervals</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> (</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">P &lt; 0.0001</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">).</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> It was seen that specially at 3^rd and 4^th week time interval a significant reduction in Plaque and Gingival scores irr</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">espective of type of ush used (</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">P &lt; 0.0001</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">). </span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Among the four toothushes it was </span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">observed that Group B</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> toothush showed the maximum reduction in Plaque and Gingival index scores followed by </span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Group C, Group D and Group A</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> toothush.</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">(P &lt; 0.0001).</span><b style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Conclusions: </span></b><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">T</span><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">he arrangement of istles plays a convincing role in reduction of Plaque besides the manual dexterity of an individual.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;line-height:&#10;115%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></p>