Evaluating the Influence of Showing Patients Their Predicted Teeth Alignment on Their Expectations and Satisfaction

Damascus University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Crowding, Tooth

Treatments: Device: Fixed orthodontic appliances

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05010616

UDDS-Ortho-07-2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients who have moderate crowding will be treated in this study. The efficacy of showing the predicted alignment of patient's teeth at the end of orthodontic treatment previously to treatment on their expectations from orthodontic treatment and their satisfaction with their teeth alignment will be assessed.

Full description

It is known that most patients expect that orthodontic treatment will improve their appearance which increases their confidence and self-esteem level.

The ability to approach patient's expectations to reality is crucial to making them reasonable and to improve patient's satisfaction with treatment outcomes.

Enrollment: 25 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 24 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Class I malocclusion with moderate crowding (between 4-6 mm of tooth-size-arch-length-discrepancy).
• Good oral hygiene and periodontal health.
• No severe skeletal discrepancy.
• Normal proclination for the upper and lower incisors.

Exclusion criteria

• Bimaxillary dentoalveolar severe protrusion.
• Need for extraction.
• Previous orthodontic treatment.
• Subject with psychological abnormalities.
• congenitally missing or extracted teeth (except for the third molars).
• history of previous trauma to the maxillofacial region or surgical interventions.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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25 participants in 1 patient group

Three-dimensional digital simulation with fixed appliance

Experimental group

Description:

The records will be obtained at the first visit, which will be one week before placing brackets. At the second visit, the orthodontic appliances will be applied; then assessments will be taken after 15 minutes of showing the patient the digital simulation of their teeth alignment at the end of orthodontic treatment.

Treatment:

Device: Fixed orthodontic appliances