Mahdi Kadkhodazadeh
1, Reza Amid
2, Parisa Zarnegarnia
3, Fatemeh Mollaverdi
4, Yaser Safi
5*, Maryam Eslami Manouchehri
61 Associate Professor, Dental Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Periodontics, Dental School, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3 Dental Student, Dental School, International Branch of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4 Postgraduate Student, Department of Operative Dentistry, Dental School, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
5 Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Dental School, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
6 DDS, Postgraduate student, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Radiology, Dental School, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran. Iran
Abstract
Background and aims. The goal of this study was to evaluate the clinical efficacy of a standard oral hygiene routine
(daily tooth brushing and flossing) along with cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) mouthwash in comparison to the same protocol
without mouthwash in chronic periodontitis patients during a 14-day period.
Materials and methods. This comparative study was carried out or 50 non-smoking patients with chronic periodontitis;
25 patients followed an oral hygiene regimen using a toothbrush and dental floss (control group) and the remaining 25
used the mentioned protocol along with CPC mouthwash (test group) for 14 days. The plaque index (PI), modified gingival
index (MGI) and probing pocket depth (PPD) were assessed. Wilcoxon and Mann-Whitney U tests were used to evaluate
and compare the prevalence of indices between the two groups. Statistical significance was set at P<0.05.
Results. The results showed greater improvement of MGI in the test group (P=0.001). No statistically significant differences
were observed in PI (P=0.47) and PPD (P=0.43) between the two groups.
Conclusion. Adding mouthwash to a standard oral hygiene regimen may improve some clinical gingival parameters when
compared with an oral hygiene routine without a mouthwash