Community Dental Health

cover art

Cover Date:
September 2011
Print ISSN:
0265 539X
Vol:
28
Issue:
3

The efficacy of dentifrices on extrinsic tooth stains among community dwelling adults in India – a randomised controlled trial

Objective: To examine the effects of routine use of two dentifrices on tooth stain. Basic research design: Single centre, parallel design, double blind randomised clinical study with two treatment groups. Clinical setting: Department of Dental Public Health, SDM College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, Karnataka, India. Participants: 125 of the 140 study subjects aged 18-70 years completed the 8-week study period. Interventions: Subjects were randomly assigned to brush twice daily with fluoride toothpaste (control) or a dentifrice formulated with silicas (test) and recalled for tooth stain examinations after 4 and 8 weeks of dentifrice use. Main outcome measures: Modified Lobene tooth stain index. Results: Whereas statistical analyses indicate no significant differences between the treatment groups for baseline scores of tooth stain intensity, stain area and tooth stain composite scores (p>0.53), examinations demonstrate significant reductions in stain area, intensity and stain composite scores amongst subjects assigned the test dentifrice at both recall visits versus the control (p<0.05). Conclusions: Routine use of the test dentifrice demonstrated significant removal of tooth stain among individuals recruited from the community.

Key words: Adults, clinical, dentifrice, fluoride, modified Lobene stain index, rural, toothbrush, silica, stain.

Article Price
£15.00
Institution Article Price
£
Page Start
201
Page End
205
Authors
K.V.V. Prasad, P.K. Sreenivasan, G. Rajesh, K. Ramya, C. Bhasker Rao, W. DeVizio

Articles from this issue

  • Title
  • Pg. Start
  • Pg. End

  1. Investing in professional advocacy: a case study of a successful fluoridation campaign in rural New South Wales, Australia
  2. 0
  3. 0

  1. Editorial - Position papers by EADPH Special Interest Groups
  2. 190
  3. 190

  1. Tooth wear and erosion: Methodological issues in epidemiological and public health research and the future research agenda
  2. 191
  3. 195

  1. The relationship between tooth wear in the primary and permanent dentitions
  2. 196
  3. 200

  1. The efficacy of dentifrices on extrinsic tooth stains among community dwelling adults in India – a randomised controlled trial
  2. 201
  3. 205

  1. Clinical and socio-demographic factors influencing the oral health-related quality of life of Chinese elders
  2. 206
  3. 210

  1. The effects of chronic pain on oral health related quality of life in patients with anterior disc displacement with reduction.
  2. 211
  3. 215

  1. Dental self-care and visiting behaviour in relation to social inequality in caries experience
  2. 216
  3. 221

  1. Clinical evaluation of chlorhexidine for the control of dental biofilm in children with special needs
  2. 222
  3. 226

  1. Oral health related quality of life among children with parents and those with no parents
  2. 227
  3. 231

  1. Psychometric properties of long and short forms of the Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ11-14) in a Thai population
  2. 232
  3. 237

  1. Dental examiners consistency in applying the ICDAS criteria for a caries prevention community trial
  2. 238
  3. 242

  1. Relationship of caries and fluorosis in adolescents from highand low-fluoride areas in Iran
  2. 248
  3. 252