A comparative clinical study investigating the efficacy of a test dentifrice containing 8% strontium acetate and 1040 ppm sodium fluoride versus a marketed control dentifrice containing 8% arginine, calcium carbonate, and 1450 ppm sodium monofluorophosphate in reducing dentinal hypersensitivity

Journal of Clinical Dentistry

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 49-55

  Hughes, Nathan ^a   Mason, Stephen ^a   Jeffery, Peter ^a   Welten, Helen ^b   Tobin, Maira ^b   O'Shea, Caoimhe ^b   Browne, Mairead ^b  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETATE STRONTIUM; ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ARGININE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; DESENSITIZING AGENT; FLUORIDE; FLUORIDE SODIUM; FLUOROPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE; STRONTIUM; TOOTHPASTE;

ADULT; AIR; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTIN SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STIMULATION; TOOTH BRUSHING; TOUCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACETATES; ADULT; AIR; ARGININE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; DENTIFRICES; DENTIN DESENSITIZING AGENTS; DENTIN SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FLUORIDES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHOSPHATES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SODIUM FLUORIDE; STRONTIUM; TOOTHBRUSHING; TOUCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955870209     PISSN: 08958831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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