NCT00871091

Study Investigating Tooth Movements With Conventional and Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) Supported Fixed Appliances

Pilot Study Investigating Tooth Movements With Conventional and CAD/CAM Supported Fixed Appliances

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Charite University, Berlin, Germany · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In orthodontics, conventional fixed appliances, usually consisting of prefabricated components, require step-by-step adjustment in order to move teeth in the planned direction. May treatment be improved with customized archwires? Study hypotheses: * By using CAD/CAM in planning and fabrication of customized archwires, unnecessary tooth movements can be avoided and teeth can be moved on their direct path to the intended position. * The application of CAD/CAM improves reproducibility, efficiency, and quality of orthodontic treatment.

Conditions

• Tooth Movement
• Orthodontics

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	orthodontic treatment with customized archwires	customized arch wires depending on the amount of needed tooth movement
PROCEDURE	orthodontic treatment with prefabricated archwires	prefabricated archwires depending of the needed movement of the teeth
PROCEDURE	orthodontic tx w/ conventional archwires+manual adjustments	conventional archwires modified by manual adjustment, depending of needed correction

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-01-01
• Primary completion: 2009-05-01
• Completion: 2009-06-01
• First posted: 2009-03-30
• Last updated: 2009-03-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany