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Assessment of Treatment Responses to Dental Flossing in Twins.
- Source :
- Journal of Periodontology; Aug2006, Vol. 77 Issue 8, p1386-1391, 6p, 1 Diagram, 4 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- Background: The purpose of this study was to assess treatment responses to dental flossing in twins. Methods: The study was a two treatment, examiner-blind, randomized, parallel group, controlled study. Fifty-one twin pairs between 12 and 21 years of age were randomized to a 2 week supervised and unsupervised treatment regimen consisting of 1) tongue brushing and toothbrushing (TB) and 2) TB + flossing (TB+FI). Clinical endpoints were gingival bleeding (papillary bleeding score [PBS]) and oral malodor (levels of volatile sulfur compounds [VSC]). Analysis of variance and covariance methodologies were employed to analyze the data. Results: Baseline average PBS values were 1.352 and 1.342 for the TB+FI and TB groups, respectively (P=0.937). After 2 weeks of treatment, the TB+FI group had a statistically significant decrease in PBS values of 0.558 (41.5% versus baseline), whereas the TB group showed no improvement from baseline. The change from baseline for the TB+FI group was superior to that for the TB group (P<0.001). Similar findings were observed for the number of baseline papillary bleeding sites. Baseline average intraoral halimeter values were 45.91 and 41.75 for the TB+FI and TB groups, respectively (P = 0.504). Both treatment regimens demonstrated highly statistically significant reductions in intraoral breath values versus baseline (all P <0.00]), and the difference between treatment groups was not statistically significant (P = 0.339). Similar findings were found for expired air. Conclusions: In a well-matched twin cohort, tongue and toothbrushing plus flossing significantly decreased gingival bleeding after 2 weeks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DENTAL floss
THERAPEUTICS
TOOTHBRUSHES
HEMORRHAGE
SULFUR compounds
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00223492
- Volume :
- 77
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Periodontology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 43402728
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1902/jop.2006.050399