The effect of using mobile applications for improving oral hygiene in patients with orthodontic fixed appliances: a randomised controlled trial.

Objective: To investigate the effect of using mobile applications active reminders to improve oral hygiene in comparison to verbal oral hygiene instructions.

Design: Two-arm parallel randomised controlled trial.

Setting: orthodontic clinics at two branches of a university hospitals of the college of dentistry of Riyadh Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.