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Powered or manual toothbrushing for people with physical or intellectual disabilities - A systematic review.

Sonja M Kalf-ScholteCees ValkenburgFridus August van der WeijdenDagmar Else Slot
Published in: Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry (2023)
This review demonstrates with a low level of evidence that a PTB compared to an MTB in the hands of people with PD or ID or in the hands of their caregivers results in no clinical difference in effectiveness on parameters of plaque and gingival inflammation.
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