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During a qualitative interview, it is crucial to give participants the opportunity to tell their story in their own words. The questions asked should delve into the study aim and be tailored to the participants’ experience [ 27]. As previously reported, interview’s questions were adapted from a previous study [ 9] to include this study’s aims and participants’ experiences. Although researchers took care to maintain quality and rigor during such process, one may presume that certain questions could be considered leading to responses. For example, the following question may be considered a leading question… So, once you knew about GC Tooth Mousse Plus, what difference did it make for you? Nevertheless, this question was included in our interview script because of the well-established effectiveness of the product in the dental literature. In addition, this question resulted in important data generation which the researchers had not anticipated (e.g. data shown on Tables 6, 7, 8 and 9). Wilson TG Jr. Compliance and its role in periodontal therapy. Periodontology. 2000a;1996(12):16–23.

A short, sharp pain from the tooth in response to being exposed to hot and cold, or sometimes to sweet and spicy foods. Sometimes the sensitivity also occurs when the tooth is touched, e.g. when brushing the teeth. What causes tooth sensitivity? One might also consider it somewhat unusual that the bulk of the evidence on remineralisation studies comes from orthodontic patients who are a very select group of individuals undergoing specialist dental care and not typical of the general population. However it would be unwise to dismiss the results because of the narrow specificity of the target group as it would reduce the data set to two studies. If one considers the orthodontic publications there is a some degree of evidence for the benefits of regression of white spot lesions, with four studies [ 33, 37, 38, 40] showing positive results and three [ 35, 36, 41] showing no significant difference to the control groups. When the three studies [ 35, 39, 41] utilising Tooth Mouth Plus® (MI Paste Plus®) are considered – Krithikadatta et al. [ 39] was the only one with a direct comparison between Tooth Mousse® and Tooth Mousse Plus®. The results of this study did not show a significant difference between the non-fluoride and fluoride-containing forms of the CPP-ACP crème and the authors suggested that further studies would be required to confirm these results.Ultimately, tooth sensitivity is caused by exposed dentin tubules (the nerves that sense pain lie within these parts of the tooth). A change in hot/cold/pH etc causes movement of the nerve within the tubule, which causes a pain signal to be sent to your brain. Alexandrino LD, Alencar CM, Silveira A, Alves EB, Silva CM. Randomized clinical trial of the effect of NovaMin and CPP-ACPF in combination with dental bleaching. J Appl Oral Sci. 2017;25(3):335–40. Sturges JE, Hanrahan KJ. Comparing telephone and face-to-face qualitative interviewing: a research note. Qual Res. 2004;4(1):107–18. While the focus of this study was not on the relationship between dental professionals and patients, it was evident that the quality of such relationship was essential for participants being encouraged to modify their daily routines. Participants talked about the value of TMP being prescribed by a dentist, and at the same time, being educated by dentists and members of a dental team on how to apply the product. It is well established in the literature that dentists’ and dental team members’ attitude towards patients can impact on treatment acceptance and home care compliance [ 9, 39, 40, 41, 42]. Our findings confirm that having a positive relationship between dental professionals and patients can be a facilitator of change.