Clearing the smoke: are tobacco cessation interventions by the dental team successful?

Aims: This study aimed to assess the outcomes of tailored tobacco cessation interventions in a dental clinic setting over one year.

Design: This interventional study recruited 1206 tobacco users who attended a smoking cessation clinic within an Oral Medicine Department in Bangalore, India. Baseline characteristics were recorded followed by a tailored smoking cessation intervention, delivered by trained faculty members and students.

Mirror, mirror on the wall-is toothbrushing instruction via a three-dimensional motion-tracked system the fairest of them all?

Aims: To assess the efficacy of a smart toothbrush and mirror (STM) system which provided computer-assisted toothbrushing instruction versus conventional verbal toothbrushing instruction (TBI) amongst a group of 6-12-year-old children.

Design: This randomised controlled trial comprised South Korean school children who were randomly allocated to one of two arms - the STM (n = 21) or the conventional TBI arm (n = 21). The STM system used identical brushes as the TBI group, but with the brush employing three-dimensional motion tracking systems alongside a mirror with an inbuilt computer to guide the user.