Effectiveness And Oral Health Status Among Individuals Using Modified Manual Tooth Brush – An Observational Study

Background of the study: Controlling plaque accumulation for prevention of gingivitis, periodontitis and dental caries effectively is determined by a number of personal and oral hygiene practice based factors. Tooth brush manufactures have put forth enormous effort in designing new models to improve performance characteristics. Aim and objective: To evaluate the effectiveness and oral health status among individuals using modified design special tooth brush with beat sound developed to assist ideal brushing technique. Material and methods: The present observational study included 20 study participants of age group between 21 to 45years. All the study participants were educated to use modified special tooth brush with beat sound regularly for a period of 21days and their oral hygiene status were evaluated by using Oral Hygiene Index Simplified (OHI-S) recorded at regular intervals on 1st, 7th and 21st day. Results: It was observed that all the study participants showed significant difference in the distribution of oral hygiene scores (P < .05) irrespective of gender and majority having a fair oral hygiene status with overall mean score of 2.22 ± 0.3259 slightly higher than previous mean score of 2.77 ± 0.468 (P=.00026) and initial visit poor oral hygiene status mean score of 3.755 ± 0.4796 (P=.04579). Conclusion: Within the limitation of this study, not taking consideration of confounding factors it can be concluded that modified special tooth brush with beat sound technique show significant difference in the Oral Hygiene Index score of an individual during the observation period thus improving the overall oral health status.