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

Riccardo Polosa

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dental Plaque; Calculus, Dental

Treatments: Behavioral: standard manual toothbrush; Behavioral: oscillating toothbrush

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06358482

ORAL1

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)

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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