Effect of oral hygiene education on adults with and without subsequent orthodontic treatment

الملخص EN

Background : Poor oral hygiene in orthodontics patients is responsible for the final poor gingival results.

The present study was designed to determine the relative effect of individual oral hygiene education on patient with fixed orthodontic appliances (test group) by measuring, Plaque index (PLI), Gingival index (GI) and Bleeding on probing (BOP), then to compare these parameters of the test group with patients without an orthodontic treatment (control group).

Materials and methods : A sample of 23 patients attending the Department of Orthodontics, College of Dentistry / Baghdad University, with an age range between 18-25 years old scheduled for fixed orthodontic treatment and another 23 control persons with the same age were selected for this study.

Plaque and gingival indices and bleeding on probing were taken for four surfaces of all teeth of both test and control groups.

These were measured for a period of twelve weeks.

Results : The mean of PLI for the control group was 0.4 at day zero for males and 0.3 for females while at the end of study was (0.4 and 0.5) respectively.

In the males of test group it was 0.2 and 0.3 for females at 0 day and was 0.6 and 0.4 respectively at end of the study.

The mean of GI for males and females of the control group at base line was 0.5 and 0.4 respectively and at the end of the study was 0.3 for both.

While for the test group it was at 0 day 0.4 for male and 0.2 for female and at the end of the study was 0.6 and 0.5 respectively.

The highest percentage of bleeding on probing was 34 % for female test group at the second weeks of the study.

Conclusion : The influence of the orthodontic treatment as such did not seem to be of importance regards individual oral hygiene habits.