Wear-documentation and Orthodontic Appliance Compliance

University of Helsinki

Status: Completed

Conditions: Orthodontic Appliance Complication

Treatments: Device: Wear-documentation microchip

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05213338

HUS/3333/2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate whether thermosensory wear-time documentation improves patient compliance of removable orthodontic appliances treated in a public health care clinic. The patients are children and adolescents.

Full description

Qualitative subjective evaluation of appliance wear comfort and compliance is recorded, in addition to objective wear-time documentations.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 15 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• orthodontic treatment with removable appliances planned

Exclusion criteria

• non-compliance to participate in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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52 participants in 2 patient groups

wear-documentation

Experimental group

Description:

Theramon

Treatment:

Device: Wear-documentation microchip

controls

No Intervention group

Description:

No microchip