NCT01962766

Myofunctionnal Therapy on Nasal Breathing and Orthodontic Corrections Stability

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (actual)
• Sponsor: Université de Montréal · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The current research project aims to study the efficacy of myofunctional therapy and its orthodontic long-term outcomes.

Detailed description

The current research project aims to study the efficacy of myofunctional therapy and its orthodontic long-term outcomes, such as: 1) Is treating a low tongue position and lip closure at rest sufficient for orthodontic short and long-term outcomes? 2) Does treating atypical swallowing along with an incorrect tongue position help achieve and maintain higher outcomes of the myofucntional and orthodontic treatments?

Conditions

• Mouth Breathing
• Atypic Swallowing
• Low Resting Position of Tongue

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Myofunctionnal therapy
BEHAVIORAL	instructions

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-10-01
• Primary completion: 2014-10-01
• Completion: 2014-10-01
• First posted: 2013-10-14
• Last updated: 2024-03-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada