Dry mouth and its effects on individual chewing efficiency

Not Applicable

Recruiting

Conditions: R68.2
Dry mouth, unspecified

Registration Number: DRKS00028252

Lead Sponsor: niversitätsklinikum Leipzig AöRDepartment für Kopf- und ZahnmedizinPoliklinik für Zahnärztliche Prothetik und Werkstoffkunde

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Recruiting

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 160

Inclusion Criteria

All volunteer female and male subjects of Leipzig University Dentistry who do not fall within the exclusion criteria will be included.

Exclusion Criteria

Pregnant women and subjects under 18 years of age, as well as subjects who have insufficient conservative (open carious lesions) and prosthetic restorations, a periodontal screening index (PSI) greater than 2, or positive findings in the anamnestic CMD brief screening (Reissmann et al. 2009), will be excluded from participation in the study. Subjects with known allergies to ingredients of the materials used in the study will also be excluded from the study.
Existing dentures should have been in situ for at least six months; study participants with shortened dentition up to the second premolar are considered to have sufficient prosthetic restoration.

Study & Design

Study Type: interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The primary objective of the present study is to investigate whether xerostomia and/or salivary flow rate correlate with individual chewing efficiency. Secondarily, it will also be investigated whether these parameters correlate with the dental status or the prosthetic care of the subject and what influence these factors have on oral health-related quality of life. In addition, age-specific, gender-specific and socioeconomic influences will be analyzed.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Secondary outcome parameters include determination of salivary buffering capacity, determination of pH of unstimulated saliva, determination of pH of stimulated saliva, dental status, prosthetic restorations, and oral health-related quality of life.