Usefulness of the newly developed artificial denture plaque for practical denture care training.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate whether the newly developed artificial dental plaque (A-DP) is useful as an educational tool for denture care of dental hygienist that compared it with conventional artificial dental plaque from the viewpoint of practical skills.

Material And Methods: The 125 dental hygienist school students and 26 dental hygienists who had clinical experience were subjected a practical training of denture plaque control using the conventional denture plaque (C-DP) and the A-DP. The questionnaires based on the semantic differential method were used to survey whether the A-DP is similar to the real denture plaque (R-DP).