NCT02639663

Dental Support Device During Breastfeeding as a Mean for Pain Control

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 700 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Leboride is a dental support device that was developed for reducing pain during active labor. It is made of an inert material, placed in the woman's mouth and does not disturb breathing, talking, or any other activity expected during labor. It is a single-use device, each user receives a new one. This study hypothesis is that the Leboride use can reduce pain during breastfeeding, by that improve women's breastfeeding experience, and increase breastfeeding rates.

Detailed description

Dental support device is effective in increasing isometric force in different muscle contraction \[1-7\]. In 2009 an avant-garde study \[8\] found in a small cohort that dental support device during labor, can shorten the second stage and reduce obstetrical interventions such as operative delivery and cesarean section. In this stage the woman has to contract muscles in order to push the fetus through the birth canal. Leboride is a dental support device that was developed for reducing pain during active labor. It is made of an inert material, placed in the woman's mouth and does not disturb breathing, talking, or any other activity expected during labor. It is a single-use device, each user receives a new one. This study hypothesis is that the Leboride use can reduce pain during breastfeeding, by that improve women's breastfeeding experience, and increase breastfeeding rates.

Conditions

• Breastfeeding

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	dental device	Leboride 1. Post-partum primi and multiparous women whom are interested in breastfeeding and have not begun yet. This arm will be randomized into 2 groups 1. Intervention group: participants will receive the dental device and be instructed to use it during breastfeeding. 2. Control group: participants will not receive any device for breastfeeding pain control 2. Post-partum women that have already begun breast feeding, will receive the dental device and each woman will be serve as her own control (breastfeeding before and after the use of the dental device.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2017-01-01
• Completion: 2018-01-01
• First posted: 2015-12-24
• Last updated: 2015-12-24