Electric and Manual Toothbrushes in Nursing Homes

September 29, 2017 updated by: Tiril Willumsen, University of Oslo

Effect of Electric Toothbrush on Oral Hygiene in Nursing Home Residents- a Randomized Clinical Trial

Effect of electric toothbrush on oral hygiene in nursing home residents tested I randomized clinical trial for 2 months and followed up 12 months after baseline

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Patients in nursing homes often have many natural teeth with exposed root surfaces, bifurcations, a complexity of dental restorations like partial prostheses, bridges/crowns, fillings and implants. In addition they have a limited physical ability, like reduced muscular strength, rigidness in the neck and spine. All these factors contribute to make it difficult, both for themselves and their nursing staff to maintain good oral hygiene.

Electrical toothbrushes have been proved effective in removal of dental plaque. There have also been reports from nursing homes that approves of electrical toothbrushes as a helpful aid among the nursing staff.

The present study examine if the overall oral hygiene actually improves with the use of electric toothbrush.

Material and method: The study is a randomized clinical trial (RCT) that includes patients from nursing homes in Oslo. The recording dentist is blind to the type of tooth brush Inclusion criteria.

  • Patients living in nursing home in Oslo
  • Provide written informed consent prior to enrolment (from relatives when patients were assessed by physician to be without ability to give written consent.

Participants in the experimental group use an electrical toothbrush. Participants in the control group use a standard manual toothbrush.

Registration of oral hygiene and plaque score at baseline 0 and after 2 months intervention.

After the RCT trial the participants were free to choose toothbrush, electric or manual. The study includes a follow-up study 10 months after the end of the RCT trial.

The study is a part of the PhD programme for Katrine Gahre Fjeld Cand. Odont.

Supervisors:

Tiril Willumsen Dr Odont, The Dental Faculty, University of Oslo Hilde Eide Dr. Philos, Department of Nursing, Buskerud University College Morten Mowe Dr med, The Medical Faculty, University of Oslo

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

233

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Norway
      • Oslo, Norway, 0317
        • University of Oslo

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

70 years to 105 years (Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients living in nursing home in Oslo
  • Provide written informed consent prior to enrolment (from relatives when patients were assessed by physician to be without ability to give written consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients too weak to be examined
  • Patients With life expectancy less then one year

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Double

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention
Electric toothbrush
Other: Electric toothbrush
Active Comparator: Control
New standard manual toothbrush
Other: Control
Manual toothbrush

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in dental plaque score by use of the Oral Hygiene Index- simplified (OHI-S)
Time Frame: baseline, after 2 months, after 12 months
OHI-S is measuring amount of dental plaque using 6 indicator teeth. Outcome measure: change in OHI-S
baseline, after 2 months, after 12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

University of Oslo

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Tiril Willumsen, Institute of Clinical Odontology

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

August 1, 2011

Primary Completion (Actual)

February 28, 2013

Study Completion (Actual)

December 15, 2016

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 26, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 29, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

October 2, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

October 2, 2017

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 29, 2017

Last Verified

September 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • REC-2011/915-5

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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