Access to Interdental Brushing in Periodontal Healthy Young Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Interdental diameter space is largely undefined in adults, which compromises the decision support for daily interdental cleaning during routine practice in individual oral prophylaxis. This study assesses the distribution of diameter access of interdental spaces in an 18- to 25-year-old adult population free of periodontal disease.

Methods

In March-April 2015, a cross-sectional study using random sampling was performed at the University Lyon 1, France. The interproximal dental spaces of 99 individuals were examined using a colorimetric calibrated probe associated with the corresponding calibrated interdental brush (IDB).

Results

Of the 2,408 out of 2,608 sites, the overall accessibility prevalence of any interdental brushing was 92.3%. In total, 80.6% of the s

SUBMITTER: Carrouel F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4871464 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature