NCT01700348

Philips AirFlosser Study

An Investigation of the Effects of a Oral Hygiene Regimen in Irregular Flossers on Gingivitis and Plaque

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 257 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tufts University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In the current study, Sonicare AirFloss (AF) will be used in combination with a Manual Toothbrush (MTB) in a population of manual toothbrush users who are irregular flossers and who exhibit signs of moderate gingivitis. The alternate test arm will be allocated to a No Intervention group and will be given no test products or instruction other than to change none of their typical at home oral hygiene habits. The aim of this study is to investigate how an AF and MTB oral hygiene intervention will affect a population of irregular flossers using the residual protein concentration method as an interproximal plaque efficacy assessment. Gingivitis reduction will be assessed using the Modified Gingival Index (MGI) and Gingival Bleeding Index (GBI) indices

Conditions

• Gingivitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Airflosser	Use of Philips Airflosser
DEVICE	Manual Floss	Active Comparator

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-08-01
• Primary completion: 2013-02-01
• Completion: 2013-02-01
• First posted: 2012-10-04
• Last updated: 2019-08-06
• Results posted: 2015-05-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States