RESULTS
calculus, bleeding, buccal calculus, lingual calculus
BLEEDING, GROUP B, PLAQUE
Sixty subjects (29 males and 31 females) were recruited for the study. During the study, two patients dropped out (one from Group A and one from Group B), both were females due to loss of follow‐up. The age of the participants ranged from 25 to 80 years, with a mean of 56.5 ± 12.2 years. Five participants were current smokers (<10 cigarettes per day), three in the test group and two in the control (Table Baseline demographics and characteristics.Abbreviations: BOP, bleeding on probing; At baseline, the mean of all teeth was 11 ± 6.6 regarding buccal calculus, 16.7 ± 7.4 regarding lingual calculus, 1.7 ± 0.2 regarding PPD, 3.4 ± 0.8 regarding BOP, 1.9 ± 0.6 regarding PI, 1.4 ± 1.2 regarding buccal REC and 1.8 ± 1.3 regarding lingual REC. No difference was found between the test and control groups at baseline (Table Clinical parameters postcalculus removal at 4 weeks (T1), reveal a significant difference between groups in the buccal calculus accumulation. The test group has significantly lower values than the control 4.0% ± 2.9 versus 6.7% ± 5.2, respectively (Characteristics at 4 weeks (T1) postcalculus removal.Abbreviations: BOP, bleeding on probing; N, number of participants; PI, plaque index; PPD, periodontal pocket depth; REC, recession; SD, standard deviation.Clinical parameters postcalculus removal at 12 weeks (T2) exhibit no significant differences between groups. Nevertheless, lingual calculus accumulation is higher than buccal (12.1% ± 9 vs. 6.8% ± 6.5), respectively (Table Characteristics at 12 weeks (T2) postcalculus removal.Abbreviations: BOP, bleeding on probing; A sub‐analysis of the calculus accumulation and changes within each arm is shown in Table Changes in calculus accumulation at T0, T1, and T2 in each group over time.
Regarding the control group, at T1, both buccal and lingual aspects demonstrate significantly lower calculus values when compared to baseline; buccally 5.3% versus 8.9% (Regarding patients' satisfaction, there was no difference between groups in any of the questions. The satisfaction of most of the participants was high or very high in both groups (Table Satisfaction questionnaire table.