Fig 1.
DentTest, Department of Operative and Preventive Dentistry, Witten/Herdecke University and Ingpuls GmbH Bochum, German.
Fig 2.
Study design.
Fig 3.
Frontal view of a scan with the reference area on top and the brushed area on the bottom.
Fig 4.
Measurement of dentin loss using profilometry for different toothbrushes for different toothbrushes.
(A) Sonic toothbrush, (B) Oscillating-rotating toothbrush, (C) Flat trim manual toothbrush (D) Rippled-shaped manual toothbrush.
Table 1.
Descriptive data of dentin loss (μm).
Fig 5.
Scatterplot of the relationship between dentin loss and toothbrushes.
Mean and standard deviation change of dentin loss (μm) after brushing with different toothbrushes and different strokes (***p<0.001). Horizontal bars indicate statistically significant differences between groups for power and manual toothbrushes, *** p < 0.001, one-way ANOVA with post hoc.