Pain Alleviation with Sonicare Toothbrush in Orthodontic Treatment

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  • 音波歯ブラシの矯正治療における疼痛緩和効果

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Several aspects of orthodontic treatment should be improved for eliminating the discomfort against to the patient. One of major concern is the pain during orthodontic treatment. The elimination of post-orthodontic adjustment pain in a physiologic manner would improve the acceptability of orthodontic treatment. The use of sonic electric toothbrush (Sonicare®) for gingival tissue massage is employed to the patients under active multi-brackets orthodontic treatment.<BR>Orthodontic tooth pain during treatment was scored as 0 to 5 by the index of verbal rating scores which is relating to biting foods by author's criteria. All pain index scores were collected during 6 months (before and after Sonicare®) for initial stage group patients, and 3 months (with and without Sonicare®) for second stage group which is on the track of treatment modality change and compared by Mann-Whitney test. Results demonstrated that Sonicare® use significantly reduced total pain index scores, days index score becomes to 0 and scores after orthodontic adjustment. From these results, gingival tissue massage by Sonicare®; might be helpful to reduce the pain associated with orthodontic tooth movement.

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