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Interventions for Patients With a Shortened Dental Arch

NCT01597206 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1/PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2017-02-13

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Summary

Dental services for large sectors of the population of the Western Cape (WC) Province of South Africa (SA) has been, and continues to be, limited to low-cost treatment options and emergency services, such as extractions at public health clinics. Replacement of missing teeth for the disadvantaged majority of the population is provided almost exclusively at the dental teaching institutions. Loss of teeth in the WC Province is, as elsewhere, the result of disease and the lack of restorative care and then having these replaced by a removable partial denture, if the patient can afford it Null Hypothesis: The daily functional needs and quality of life of partially dentate adult patients with a reduced posterior dental arch and /or a Shortened Dental Arch (SDA) will not be satisfied nor improved by replacing the posterior teeth with a removable prosthesis.

Conditions

  • Anomaly of Dental Arch

Interventions

DEVICE

Removable partial denture (Chrome Cobalt Distal extension)

For Group A: a distal extension removable denture will be constructed for patients with a reduced posterior dental arch

OTHER

A reduced posterior dental arch

For Group B: Patients with a reduced posterior dental arch will not be provided with a removable denture and will be compared to patients in Group A

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of the Western Cape

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Saadika Khan, PhD · Staff Member

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-31
Primary Completion
2016-10-31
Completion
2016-11-30

Countries

  • South Africa

Study Locations

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