Evaluation of Sodium Hypochlorite as a Denture Cleanser

University of Campinas, Brazil

Status: Completed

Conditions: Problems With Dentures

Treatments: Other: Sodium hypochlorite immersion

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01616355

068/2008

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study tried to integrate all aspects of denture care: patient satisfaction with the treatment, denture decontamination and base material defects after decontamination processing.

Full description

Considering that it is necessary to stipulate a simple and effective routine protocol for denture cleaning the aim of this study was to evaluate, in vivo, the efficacy of 0.5% sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) as a denture cleanser and its effect on color stability and surface roughness of complete dentures. The patients' satisfaction with the denture cleaning method was also assessed.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• complete denture wearers; adequate general health conditions
• ability to comply with the experimental protocol
• time of denture use: at least one year prior the study
• denture base material: heat-polymerized acrylic resin.

Exclusion criteria

• the use of antifungal agents or antiseptic mouthwashes during the pre-experimental and experimental period.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)