TENS and Orthognathic Surgery

Fayoum University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Orthognathic Surgery

Treatments: Behavioral: TENS; Behavioral: sham TENS

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05717322

EC2227

Details and patient eligibility

About

All patients with skeletal deformity will undergo orthognathic surgery after orthodontic treatment. After surgery TENS electrodes( rubber electrodes with the same size 5.3×4.8 cm) will be Placed bilaterally on ant temporalis and bilaterally on superficial masseter muscle...Time : 30 min /3 times per week/ 6 weeks

Enrollment: 34 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Class II facial deformity
• absence of temporomandibular joint pain and preoperative opening mouth limitation
• normal cranial form
• presence of dentition
• Fit to GA

Exclusion criteria

• temporomandibular joint pain and preoperative opening mouth limitation;
• craniofacial anomalies and abnormal cranial form
• absence of facial trauma, mandibular condylar fracture

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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34 participants in 2 patient groups

TENS arm

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: TENS

non TENS arm

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: sham TENS