The purpose of this study is to provide a guide for selection of oral hygiene devices for nations and establishing valid indication of recently popularized water jet.
The author has divided 36 persons into general, orthodontic, periodontal patients according to their oral hygiene state, and then evaluated the degree or decrease in plaque indices and gingival bleeding indices.
The obtained results were as follows.
1. When both manual toothbrush and water jet were used together by three kind of patients, significant decreases in plaque index were observed in all patients, after 4 weeks compared with ordinary toothbrushing only(p<0.05).
2. When both oral hygiene devices were used together by three kind of patients, significant decreases in gingival bleeding index were observed in all patients after 4 weeks compared with ordinary toothbrushing only(p<0.05).
3. Singificant differences of the average gingival bleeding index & plaque index among three kind of patients were observed(p<0. 05).
4. Therefore, it is concluded that for effective oral hygiene care, water jet can be recommendable to general patients, especially to orthodontic or periodontal patients.
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