NCT02330614

Personality Bleaching

Is the Personality Relevant in the Choice of Bleaching ?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 128 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Chile · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

128 patients between 18 and 76 years who attended the Operative Dentistry Clinic at Dental School, Universidad de Chile, were included in the study. 58 patients were bleaching (experimental group) and 70 patients don't accepted the bleaching procedure (control group) were included in this study and signed a consent form.Experimental group Patients who agreed to be bleaching were treated with 10% carbamide peroxide (CP) gel (Whiteness Perfect, FGM) to each subject With verbal instructions for 3 weeks with daily applications of 1 hour according to manufacturers indications , before and after this procedure was applied again the NEO-FFI personality test form, had 30 minutes to answer it.Control group:Patients who refused to be bleached were administered the personality test NEO-FFI, had 30 minutes to answer it.

Detailed description

Data collection NEO-FFI data was collected in a Microsoft Excel data sheet and analyzed by a psychology that was blind to patient's expectations. According to the answers, each scale might get a score between 0 and 50. Statistical analysis For comparisons between scales between groups of patients were bleaching and who refused to be bleached Mann Whitney test was used.For each pair of scales it was determined if any one of them predominated over its counterpart by Wilcoxon rank test before and after bleaching . To corroborate the statistical power of this study was calculated post-hoc with the NEO-FFI scores values between the comparisons and showed a high statistical power (0.99) by G-Power software.

Conditions

• Personality

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Bleaching by peroxide carbamide 10%	bleaching were treated with 10% carbamide peroxide (CP) gel (Whiteness Perfect, FGM) to each subject With verbal instructions for 3 weeks with daily applications of 1 hour according to manufacturers indications
OTHER	Nothing - control group	Only NEO-FFI test , data used as control

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-07-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2015-01-05
• Last updated: 2015-01-05