Myofunctional Therapy in Open Bite - RCT

Piotr Fudalej

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Open Bite

Treatments: Procedure: Myofunctional therapy (-); Procedure: Myofunctional therapy (+)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06574490

1072.6120.39.2024

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if myofunctional therapy in 6-10-year-old children with infant type of swallowing and open bite is effective.

Primary hypothesis: myofunctional therapy results in correction of open bite Researchers will compare a group in which myofunctional therapy is performed for 6 months to a group in which myoufunctional therapy will be delayed by 1 year.

Participants will exercise according to a pre-established regimen and schedule

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 10 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• generally healthy children aged 6-10 years,
• infant swallowing type,
• open anterior occlusion (i.e. no contact between the maxillary and mandibular medial incisors),
• mixed dentition

Exclusion criteria

• finger sucking habit (or similar) occurring within the last 6 months,
• previous myofunctional therapy,
• upper airway obstruction,
• congenital craniofacial developmental disorder,
• connective tissue or muscle disease,
• macroglossia,
• ankyloglossia,
• mental retardation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Myofunctional +

Experimental group

Description:

A series of myofunctional exercises

Treatment:

Procedure: Myofunctional therapy (+)

Myofunctional -

Active Comparator group

Description:

No exercises

Treatment:

Procedure: Myofunctional therapy (-)