Chewing Side Preference and Hemispheric Laterality in Healthy Adults

Hacettepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mastication

Treatments: Other: Evaluation of chewing side preference

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03054246

Chewing side preference

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is aimed to investigate if chewing side preference (CSP) can be used as another indicator of hemispheric laterality in healthy adults. Healthy volunteers with no oral/dental problems with Angle I occlusion relationship and without any missing teeth will be included in the study. The CSP will be determined with the visual analog scale (VAS), which is the highly reliable method. Laterality test will be used to determine the preferred side for hands, feet, ears and eyes.

Full description

Lateral preference is important to determine hemispheric laterality, which is usually diagnosed by hand and other sidedness, including footedness, eyedness and earedness. study is aimed to investigate if chewing side preference (CSP) can be used as another indicator of hemispheric laterality in healthy adults. Healthy volunteers with no oral/dental problems with Angle I occlusion relationship and without any missing teeth will be included in the study. The CSP will be determined with the visual analog scale (VAS), which is the highly reliable method. Laterality test will be used to determine the preferred side for hands, feet, ears and eyes.

Enrollment: 75 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Healthy volunteers;

• Between the ages of 18-50 years
• Have no oral/dental problems with Angle I occlusion relationship and without any missing teeth
• Have no orofacial pain and/or no oral appliances will be included in the study.

Exclusion criteria

Participants;

• Under the age of 18 years and above the age of 50 years
• Have oral/dental problems with missing teeth
• Have orofacial pain
• Have oral appliances will be excluded from the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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75 participants in 1 patient group

Healthy volunteers

Other group

Description:

Seventy-five healthy volunteers with no oral/dental problems with Angle I occlusion relationship and without any missing teeth will be included in the study. Evaluation of chewing side preference and laterality will be performed.

Treatment:

Other: Evaluation of chewing side preference