NCT04661761

Influence of Two Paraffin Wax Chewing Gums of Different Consistency on the Stimulated Saliva Flow Rate

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 81 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study examines two different chewing gums with regard to consistency and its influence on the result of sialometry

Detailed description

The examination (sialometry) is performed on healthy volunteers. The volunteers must chew on a paraffin gum for seven minutes. After each minute, the amount of secreted saliva is spat into a designated cup and evaluated. This test is performed with Aurosan chewing gum and later with GC Europe chewing gum.

Conditions

• Xerostomia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Paraffin Pellets from Aurosan GmbH	1 to 2 minutes pre-chewing time chewing Paraffin Pellets from Aurosan GmbH, after which the amount of saliva is collected over a period of five minutes. The patient may chew the chewing gum once per second; after each minute the produced amount of saliva is spit in a cup, the whole amount measured after 5 minutes.
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Chewing wax from the Saliva-Check Buffer from GC Europe	1 to 2 minutes pre-chewing time chewing wax from the Saliva-Check Buffer from GC Europe, after which the amount of saliva is collected over a period of five minutes. The patient may chew the chewing gum once per second; after each minute the produced amount of saliva is spit in a cup, the whole amount measured after 5 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-06-17
• Primary completion: 2022-04-24
• Completion: 2022-04-24
• First posted: 2020-12-10
• Last updated: 2022-04-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland