Pawar Madhura, Kumari Neha, Gopal Ruchi, Nasha Divya, Bhuyan Lipsa, Verma Vartika
Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Dr D Y Patil Dental College and Hospital, Dr D Y Patil Vidyapeeth Pimpri, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics, Awadh Dental College and Hospital, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India.
J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2023 Jul;15(Suppl 2):S1301-S1304. doi: 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_110_23. Epub 2023 Jul 11.
Chewable toothbrushes were compared to traditional manual toothbrushes in terms of their ability to remove plaque and their impact on salivary pH in a sample of school-aged children.
The sample size for this research was 200 youngsters aged 10-12. Saliva was collected by spitting into a clean container, and the pH levels were measured using color-coded pH strips to determine where the person was starting from. The plaque score was measured using the OHI-S index after the application of the disclosing agent. The pH and plaque scores were also recalculated after brushing to see how they had changed after surgery.
Results indicated that both manual and chewable brushes significantly improved post-brushing pH ratings ( = 0.001), and that plaque scores decreased ( = 0.001). When compared to conventional manual toothbrushes, the chewable brush was much more successful in reducing plaque and elevating salivary pH ( = 0.001).
As a result, parents may offer their kids a chewable toothbrush to help them maintain good oral hygiene after lunch and on lengthy car trips, when they would not have time to wash their teeth properly.
在一组学龄儿童样本中，将可咀嚼牙刷与传统手动牙刷在去除牙菌斑的能力及其对唾液pH值的影响方面进行比较。
本研究的样本量为200名10至12岁的青少年。通过向干净容器中吐痰收集唾液，并使用颜色编码的pH试纸测量pH值水平，以确定受试者的初始状态。在使用菌斑显示剂后，使用OHI-S指数测量菌斑评分。刷牙后还重新计算了pH值和菌斑评分，以观察刷牙后它们的变化情况。
结果表明，手动牙刷和可咀嚼牙刷均显著提高了刷牙后的pH值评分（P = 0.001），且菌斑评分降低（P = 0.001）。与传统手动牙刷相比，可咀嚼牙刷在减少菌斑和提高唾液pH值方面更为成功（P = 0.001）。
因此，家长可以给孩子提供可咀嚼牙刷，以便在午餐后以及长时间乘车旅行时，当孩子没有时间正确刷牙时，帮助他们保持良好的口腔卫生。
