Efficacy of an interdental brush in cleaning artificial plaque on a 3D-printed model base

BMC Oral Health

Table 1 Summary of standard cleaned area, cleaning efficacy, and standard error for interdental brushes of five sizes over the cycles from 0 to 9 at 0.7 mm embrasure (n = 5)

Brush stem diameter (mm)	0.6			0.7			0.8			1.0			1.2
Cleaning no	Standard cleanedarea (px)	Cleaning efficacy (%)	Standard error (%)	Standard cleaned area (px)	Cleaning efficacy (%)	Standard error (%)	Standard cleaned area (px)	Cleaning efficacy (%)	Standard error (%)	Standard cleaned area (px)	Cleaning efficacy (%)	Standard error (%)	Standard cleaned area (px)	Cleaning efficacy (%)	Standard error (%)
1	11,720	28.91	2.07	11,890	29.32	1.89	10,631	26.22	2.65	12,101	29.84	0.21	15,647	38.59	1.35
2	17,876	44.09	3.58	17,673	43.59	2.43	18,835	46.45	2.00	18,878	46.56	1.42	21,598	53.27	0.74
3	22,507	55.51	1.83	23,531	58.04	2.78	25,887	63.85	0.49	23,561	58.11	2.04	26,564	65.52	0.10
4	26,840	66.20	0.33	27,694	68.30	1.25	29,584	72.97	0.64	27,572	68.00	2.33	31,454	77.58	0.37
5	28,085	69.27	0.59	28,870	71.20	0.64	30,359	74.88	0.79	30,053	74.12	1.14	33,847	83.48	1.65
6	28,347	69.92	0.99	29,262	72.17	0.22	30,748	75.84	0.91	31,101	76.71	1.74	34,284	84.56	1.64
7	28,787	71.00	0.37	29,456	72.65	0.44	30,984	76.42	0.83	31,714	78.22	0.78	34,662	85.49	1.84
8	29,030	71.60	0.13	29,719	73.30	0.50	31,391	77.42	0.86	32,173	79.35	0.37	34,852	85.96	1.68
9	29,211	72.04	0.43	29,882	73.70	0.60	31,526	77.75	0.76	32,369	79.84	0.39	35,019	86.37	1.66

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