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Comparison Between Clear Aligners and Traditional Fixed Appliances in the Treatment of Four-premolar-extraction Cases

NCT03645356 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2023-02-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Patients who have severe crowding that require four premolars extraction will be treated in this study. The efficacy of the clear aligners and vestibular fixed appliances will be assessed. The treatment result of these two different methods will be explored using the Peer Assessment Rating (PAR) in two different times (T0: Before treatment, T1: After treatment) and the American Board of Orthodontics Objective Grading System (ABO-OGS) after treatment (T1).

There are two groups:

First group (Experimental): the patients in this group will be treated using clear aligners.

Second group (Control): the patients in this group will be treated using fixed appliances.

Conditions

  • Malocclusion, Angle Class I
  • Malocclusion; Displaced or Missing Teeth
  • Crowding

Interventions

DEVICE

Fixed Appliances

Using an MBT-prescription of metallic brackets, patients will be treated in the conventional way

DEVICE

Clear Aligners

Using a sequence of clear aligners, patients will be give an aligner every two weeks until the completion of treatment

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Damascus University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Samer T Jaber, DDS MSc · PhD Student in Orthodontics, University of Damascus Dental School, Damascus

  • Mohammad Y Hajeer, DDS MSc PhD · Associate Professor of Orthodontics, University of Damascus Dental School, Damascus, Syria

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-08-19
Primary Completion
2021-12-10
Completion
2022-07-20

Countries

  • Syria

Study Locations

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