Occlusal Outcomes by OGS After a Finishing Protocol

Universidad de Antioquia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Orthodontics; Malocclusion

Treatments: Other: T2 after the aligner; Other: Historic control group; Device: T1 before aligner

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03714087

Finishing2

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluation of the effects of the implementation of a new finishing protocol in orthodontics patients

Full description

Patients who are being treated in the postgraduate orthodontic clinics and who meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria, will be subject to a detailed evaluation according to the OGS criteria and upon meeting the treatment completion criteria they will be placed an aligner with setup for 3 weeks. The scores obtained before and after the aligner will be compared with a historical control group The OGS score obtained for each group, will be compared and the impact of the protocol and the aligner will be evaluated

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who completed the active phase of the bimaxillary orthodontic treatment in the Orthodontics Postgraduate Program of the UdeA by criteria of the treating clinician, during 2014 - 2018 period were included. Patients treated by using the UDEA1 finishing protocol (GC) and the UDEA 2 (GE) finishing protocol, which included aligners. All patients must have standardized diagnostic records at the end of the finishing phase (cast models and panoramic X-Rays) and must accepted to participate in the study voluntarily

Exclusion criteria

• Patients that require prosthetic, periodontal and / or surgical treatments or with systemic compromise that may influence the outcome of orthodontic treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 3 patient groups

T1 Conventional treatment before aligner

Experimental group

Description:

T1 before aligner: Conventional orthodontic treatment patients before the essix aligner

Treatment:

Device: T1 before aligner

T2 After essix aligner

Experimental group

Description:

T2 after the aligner: Essix aligner appliance with setup for 3 weeks full time

Treatment:

Other: T2 after the aligner

Historic control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Conventional orthodontic treatment without finishing protocol UdeA2

Treatment:

Other: Historic control group