Status:
UNKNOWN
CAD/CAM Fixed Retainers vs. Conventional Multistranded Fixed Retainers in Orthodontic Patients. Comparison of Stability, Retainer Failure Rate, Adverse Effects, Cost-effectiveness, and Patient Satisfaction. A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
Lead Sponsor:
University of Aarhus
Collaborating Sponsors:
University of Oslo
Conditions:
Relapse
Eligibility:
All Genders
12-25 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Introduction: Orthodontic retainers are used after the completion of orthodontic treatment to assure dental occlusal stability and to maintain the achieved end-result. However, without retention teet...
Detailed Description
Material and Methods Setting: Section of Orthodontics, Department of Dentistry and Oral Health, Aarhus University, Denmark and Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Oslo, No...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Healthy patients.
- Age: 12-25 years old (at time of debonding).
- Presence of all maxillary and mandibular anterior teeth, with normal shape and size.
- Completion of a course of fixed appliance therapy involving both dental arches.
- Subjects willing to consent to the trial and comply with the trial regime.
- No restriction to presenting initial malocclusion, type of active orthodontic treatment undertaken provided that it included full fixed appliances (functional/removable appliances in combination with fixed appliances - extraction or non-extraction)
Exclusion
- Patients with cleft lip or palate, or both or any other craniofacial syndrome.
- Patients who had surgical correction of the jaws: Le fort I (2- or 3-piece maxilla) or SARPE (surgically assisted rapid palatal expansion).
- Lingual appliance treatments.
- Periodontal disease.
- Hypoplasia of enamel.
- Fluorosis.
- Active caries, restorations or fractures in the anterior teeth.
- Patients who have had separate debonding appointments for each jaw, with a difference of more than 2 months in between.
- Re-treated patients.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2018
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
December 1 2025
Estimated Enrollment :
126 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04389879
Start Date
September 1 2018
End Date
December 1 2025
Last Update
November 3 2022
Active Locations (2)
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1
Marie Anne Michele Cornelis
Aarhus, Denmark, 8000
2
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway, 0455