Status
Conditions
Treatments
About
Tooth loss impacts taste abilities and food intake. Present study aims at pertaining the impact of teeth loss and the replacement by means of complete denture on taste and trigeminal abilities, and on food preferences, and taste appetence.
Full description
Two groups of participants will be included. Participants wearing complete denture for at least one year (n=20) and their matched controls for age, sex, tobacco, and saliva secretion (n=20). Their oral sensory abilities of participants will be assessed including taste (electrogustometric thresholds, chemical taste identification ability) and trigeminal quantitative sensory testing. Food preferences and selectivity (Maitre et al., 2014) and taste appetence (Deglaire et al., 2012) will also be assessed.
Enrollment
Sex
Ages
Volunteers
Inclusion criteria
Study Group : being completely edentulous and wearing denture for at least one year, wearing denture during meals, with clean and stable dentures. Controls:
controls Group : dentate subjects (25 teeth at leas, non endodontically treated) with molars in Angle's Class I occlusion, having no functional disturbance of mastication and not undergoing dental treatment at the time of the recording. Matched with subjects of the study group for age, sex, tabacco consumption, and saliva flow rate.
Exclusion criteria
Primary purpose
Allocation
Interventional model
Masking
40 participants in 2 patient groups
Loading...
Central trial contact
Yves Boucher, Professor; Adeline Braud, Doctor
Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov
Clinical trials
Research sites
Resources
Legal