NCT02113137

Oral Hygiene Procedures on Reduction of Oral Malodor

Effects of Various Oral Hygiene Procedures on the Reduction of Oral Malodor in Periodontally Healthy Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ei Ei Aung · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of various oral hygiene procedures on reduction of oral malodor.

Detailed description

Thirty volunteers who matched with including criteria were divided randomly into two groups. Both groups were instructed to brush their teeth with a scrubbing method for the first one week. Then, each group received the different additional oral malodor reduction regimen- in addition to tooth brushing tongue cleaning in one group and chlorine dioxide (ClO2) mouthwash in another group for three consecutive weeks. After that, all the participants were instructed to practice all the three oral hygiene procedures (tooth brushing, mouth washing, tongue cleaning) the last one week. Total volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) measured by breathtron, tongue coating, plaque score and bleeding on probing (BOP) were outcomes of this study.

Conditions

• Halitosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	group 1: drug: chlorine dioxide	First, each group practiced tooth brushing only for one week. After that each group was requested to do the following procedures. group 1 - additional use of 12ml chlorine dioxide (ClO2) mouthwash two times per day, for three consecutive weeks besides tooth brushing. At last, each group practiced all three methods of tooth brushing, tongue cleaning, mouth washing.
DEVICE	group 2: device: small tooth brush for tongue cleaning	First, each group practiced tooth brushing only for one week. After that each group was requested to do the following procedures. group 2 - additional practice of tongue cleaning by a small tooth brush two times per day, for three consecutive weeks besides tooth brushing. At last, each group practiced all three methods of tooth brushing, tongue cleaning, mouth washing.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-09-01
• Primary completion: 2013-10-01
• Completion: 2013-11-01
• First posted: 2014-04-14
• Last updated: 2014-04-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Japan