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What is Electric Flosser?

An electrically driven dental floss device having a tip with a forked end adapted to hold a short piece of dental floss tauntly across the forked end. A body handle having finger grips is adapted to move the forked end in a straight line motion vertically within a range of 1 to 2 millimeters such that the dental floss will move along side the tooth to clean.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Intention tremor 1 1 Efficacy_none
MS (Multiple Sclerosis) 1 1 Efficacy_none

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 0
None
 1

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Using (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 1   Other: 100%

See all 1 patient who’ve stopped using Electric Flosser

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

How Long Patients Used Before Stopping

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Electric Flosser

Always
 1 100%
Usually
 0 0%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Electric Flosser

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 1 100%
Not at all
 0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Electric Flosser

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 0 0%

Report created on May 27, 2012.