Comparative Results of Maxillary Deficiency Treatment by Fixed Tongue Appliance and Fixed Facemask in Growing Patients

Shahid Beheshti University

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 3

Conditions: Maxillary Deficiency

Treatments: Device: Fixed Face Mask; Device: Fixed Tongue Appliance

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00916084

behnaz1357

Details and patient eligibility

About

A new fixed appliance will be used to transfer the tongue force during its physiological activity to advance the nasomaxillary complex; this method will be compared with the traditional method which uses a facemask with a fixed appliance in the mouth.

Full description

The above method will be compared with traditional one which uses the facemask in combination with an intra-oral fixed appliance.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 11 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Growing patients
• Class III with maxillary deficiency

Exclusion criteria

• Previous orthodontic treatment
• Uncooperative patients

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Group A

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Fixed Tongue Appliance

Group B

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Fixed Face Mask