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Preliminary Clinical Study of Ultrasound to Measure Enamel Thickness

NCT01622920 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2013-03-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators have now established a technique to measure enamel thickness which has been shown to work well in-vitro. The teeth tested so far, obtained from the Dental School Tissue Bank, have been molars or pre-molars. In these cases, the measurement is made more difficult by the curvature of the tooth surface and it seems likely that flatter larger, incisors would give more satisfactory results. The investigators therefore wish to establish in-vivo whether this hypothesis is correct.

Conditions

  • Tooth Erosion

Interventions

OTHER

Ultrasound transducer

A hand-held ultrasound transducer will be placed on a central incisor and enamel thickness measurements recorded

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Leeds

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Khalid Sindi, BDS · University of Leeds (Leeds Dental Instiitute)

  • Lynn Gutteridge, BDS, MDS, FDS RCS, MRD RCS · University of Leeds (Leeds Dental Institute)

  • Nigel Bubb, Bsc, PhD · University of Leeds (Leeds Dental Institute)

  • Anthony Evans, BSc, MSc, PhD, CSci · University of Leeds (Department of Medical Physics, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics)

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-11-30
Primary Completion
2012-12-31
Completion
2012-12-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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