NCT06424600

Ginglival Health Among Smokers Visiting Dental Hospital

Effect of Various Forms of Nicotine Consumption on Gingival Health of Dental Patients.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 300 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The effect of different forms of nicotine intake on the gingival health of dental patients that visited a public sector in Islamabad. A total of 300 dental patients that visited School of Dentistry, Islamabad voluntarily participated in this study. The nicotine consuming participants involved in this study were Smoke-form users, E cigarette-form users, and Dual-form users whose Gingival Index (G-I) was inspected to demonstrate an association between their smoking type and duration of developing severe gingivitis.

Detailed description

A total of 300 dental patients who visited the School of Dentistry, Islamabad, participated voluntarily in this study. The nicotine-consuming participants involved in this study were Smoke-Form users (S-form), Electronic cigarette-form users (E-form), and Dual-Form users (D-form) whose Gingival Index (G-I) was inspected to demonstrate an association between their smoking type and duration of developing severe gingivitis. The G-I ranging between 0.5 - 2.00 was used to calculate the occurrence of severe gingival issues in participants with smoking habits where G-I between 0.50 1.00 displayed Light gingival inflammation, G-I between 1.10-2.00 revealed Moderate gingival inflammation and G-I \> 2.00 confirmed Severe gingival inflammation. A chi-Square test was used for the association by keeping significance p\< 0.05.

Conditions

• Smoking

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Gingival Index	The G-I index ranging between 0.5-2 was used to calculate the occurrence of severe gingival issues in participants with smoking habits. The G-I index between 0.50-1.00 displayed light gingival inflammation, G-I between 1.10-2.00 revealed moderate gingival inflammation and G-I \> 2.00 confirmed severe gingival inflammation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-03
• Primary completion: 2024-02-04
• Completion: 2024-02-04
• First posted: 2024-05-22
• Last updated: 2024-06-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan