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Electric Toothbrush Efficacy in Preventing Dental Plaque Development (E-TOOTH)

R

Riccardo Polosa

Status

Completed

Conditions

Dental Plaque
Calculus, Dental

Treatments

Behavioral: standard manual toothbrush
Behavioral: oscillating toothbrush

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study will be the first to compared dental plaque quantitation between an oscillating-rotating electric toothbrush and a manual toothbrush with a new QLF technology.

Full description

This is a randomized controlled trial of 12-weeks duration designed to assess whether a new commercially available oscillating-rotating electric toothbrush can objectively improve dental plaque parameters obtained via light induced fluorescence (QLF) technology. The study will be conducted in a dental clinic in Italy

Enrollment

100 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 50 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • healthy adult (aged 18-50 years)
  • non-smokers
  • without clinical signs of periodontitis with at least 10 natural anterior teeth in total (cuspid to cuspid and lower and upper jaw).

Exclusion criteria

  • significant oral soft tissue pathology or any type of gingival overgrowth other than plaque-induced gingivitis,
  • with fixed and removable orthodontic appliances or removable dentures,
  • with any other medical condition that, in the opinion of the principal investigator, would jeopardize the participant's safety or diminish the validity of study results

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

100 participants in 2 patient groups

A Digital
Experimental group
Description:
oscillating-rotating electric toothbrush group
Treatment:
Behavioral: oscillating toothbrush
B Manual
Active Comparator group
Description:
manual toothbrush group
Treatment:
Behavioral: standard manual toothbrush

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Antonio Pacino, MD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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