Effectiveness of musical toothbrush on oral debris and gingival bleeding among 6–10-year-old children: A randomized controlled trial
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| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-192239
ABSTRACT
Context Motivation serves to be an integral part of health promotion to children at the learning phase of their life. Aim:
Evaluation of the effectiveness of musical toothbrush over regular toothbrush in the debris and gingival bleeding scores among children. Settings andDesign:
This was a single-blinded parallel, randomized controlled trial conducted among 6–10-year-old schoolchildren in Chennai.Methods:
One hundred participants with allocation ratio of 11 were assigned to musical and regular toothbrush group by simple randomization. After baseline evaluation (T0) of Debris Index-Simplified (DI-S) and Gingival Bleeding Index (GBI), outcome variables were assessed for a period of 3 months (T1, T2, and T3). Statistical Analysis Used Friedman test and Mann–Whitney statistical test were used to compare the outcome variables within and across the two groups.Results:
Thirty-two boys and 68 girls (mean age 8.53 years) participated in the study. Statistically significant difference was seen in DI-S score among musical toothbrush group (mean 0.50 [T3] and GBI score 8.18% [T3]) when compared to regular toothbrush group (mean 1.59 [T3] and GBI score 23.54 [T3]) at the end of the 3rd month.Conclusion:
Although both the musical and regular toothbrushes effectively reduced the DI-S and GBI scores, former showed effective change among children when compared to the latter.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Type of study:
Controlled clinical trial
Year:
2019
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