Zhonghua Kou Qiang Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2017 Sep 9;52(9):524-528. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1002-0098.2017.09.002.
Toothpaste is an oral health care product that can be used to help cleansing teeth and improve oral hygiene. Currently use of toothpaste has been transferred from the conventional objective of oral hygiene to the new era of prevention and intervention of oral diseases. Therefore, functional toothpaste has been developed in a fast way. It is imperative to investigate toothpaste, because the wise use of specific functional toothpaste could prevent or reduce oral diseases such as dental caries and periodontal diseases, improve peoples oral and general health and save social healthcare resources. However, dental professionals have various understandings on the efficacy and differentiations of functional toothpastes. For example, there are different explanations for the efficacy of functional toothpastes, which may exaggerate, depreciate or deny their clinical efficacy. To ensure the highest level of the patients safety and professional satisfaction for both toothpaste products and related informatics, and also to make the dentists be acquainted with the updated research findings, developments and standards, it is necessary to review systematically the efficacy of functional toothpaste.
牙膏是一种口腔保健产品，可用于帮助清洁牙齿并改善口腔卫生。目前，牙膏的用途已从传统的口腔卫生目标转向口腔疾病预防和干预的新时代。因此，功能性牙膏得到了快速发展。研究牙膏势在必行，因为明智地使用特定的功能性牙膏可以预防或减少龋齿和牙周病等口腔疾病，改善人们的口腔和整体健康状况，并节省社会医疗资源。然而，牙科专业人员对功能性牙膏的功效和差异有不同的理解。例如，对于功能性牙膏的功效有不同的解释，这些解释可能夸大、贬低或否认其临床功效。为确保牙膏产品和相关信息学对患者的安全性和专业满意度达到最高水平，并使牙医了解最新的研究结果、发展情况和标准，有必要系统地审查功能性牙膏的功效。
