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Sensory Retraining Facilitates Sensory Recovery After Mandibular Nerve Injury

NCT01586598 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2012-04-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether sensory retraining exercise could improve lip numbness caused by bilateral sagittal split of mandible.

Conditions

  • Injury of Trigeminal Nerve
  • Surgery
  • Mandibular Prognathism

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

sensory retraining protocol

1. within one month after the surgery: facial massage and physical stimulation over lower face and lip, four times (20 minutes each time) a day 2. one to three months after the surgery: brush and physical stimulation over lower face and lip, four times (20 minutes each time) a day 3. three to six months after the surgery: brush, pin and physical stimulation over lower face and lip, four times (20 minutes each time) a day

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Chiung Shing Huang, PhD, DDS · Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-04-30
Primary Completion
2014-09-30
Completion
2015-09-30

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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