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CLINICAL TRIAL article

Front. Oral. Health
Sec. Oral Health Promotion
Volume 5 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/froh.2024.1479684

Fabrication of a Novel 'All in One Glove'-A Functional Tool for Oral Hygiene Maintenance and the Assessment of its Effectiveness on Plaque Control in Spastic Cerebral Palsy Patients

Provisionally accepted

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    Background & Objective -Spastic Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a neurological disorder from nonprogressive brain injury or malformation during development, severely impairing movement, coordination, reflexes, posture, balance, and motor skills. Individuals with spastic CP experience limb spasticity, complicating tasks like precise gripping, particularly with toothbrushes. This study proposed a novel "all-in-one glove" for oral hygiene, assessing its efficacy and comparing it to conventional toothbrushes for spastic CP patients.Methods & Materials -This randomized controlled trial was conducted on 30 clinically diagnosed spastic CP patients with Group 1 consisting of 15 Subjects with clinically diagnosed spastic CP with generalized gingival diseases using conventional oral hygiene techniques with weekly oral hygiene reinforcement and Group 2 consisting of 15 Subjects with clinically diagnosed spastic cerebral palsy with generalized gingival diseases using the novel "all in one glove" method for oral hygiene maintenance with weekly oral hygiene reinforcement. The Clinical Parameters assessed includes Full mouth plaque scores, Full mouth bleeding scores and OHI scores recorded at baseline, 3 and 6 months.Results -A statistically significant reduction was observed in Full-mouth Plaque, Bleeding, and Oral Hygiene Index (OHI) scores in both the groups (48.87% & 43.285%, 31.57% & 26.66%, 57.29% & 47.37% respectively). The Group 2 exhibited a marginally higher percentage reduction in all clinical parameters compared to the Group 1 at the measured time points.The utilization of the "All in one glove" has improved the effectiveness of oral hygiene maintenance and gingival health in spastic CP individuals.

    Keywords: Spasticity, Cerebral Palsy, Toothbrush Modifications, All in One, One Single span, Oral hygiene maintenance Trial Registration Number -REF/2022/06/055641 Registry Name -Clinical Trials Registry -India

    Received: 10 Oct 2024; Accepted: 20 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Palanisamy, Cholan, Parthasarathy and Tadepalli. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Sucharitha Palanisamy, SRM Dental College, Chennai, India

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