Oral Health, Bite Force and Dementia (OrBiD)

University of Zurich (UZH)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Oral Hygiene; Chewing Problem; Dementia

Treatments: Procedure: Oral Health; Procedure: Bite Force

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03775772

2017_OrBiD_RCT

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study aims: The primary aim is to identify influencing variables on oral hygiene / oral health and bite force in patients with dementia.

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 100 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• > 59 years
• no acute processes being present
• no known cranio-mandibular dysorder (CMD) or finding of any CMD during study participation
• non or Maximum of one dental hygiene treatment in the last 12 months

Exclusion criteria

• younger than 60 years
• acute processes in the oral-facial Region
• known CDM case
• more than one dental hygiene treatment in the last 12 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

Oral Health - Test Group

Other group

Description:

- study population is randomly assigned to control and test group

Treatment:

Procedure: Oral Health

Bite Force/Chewing Efficacy-Test Group

Other group

Description:

- study population is randomly assigned to control and test group

Treatment:

Procedure: Bite Force