Accelerating orthodontic tooth movement through Vpro device

This study is a split-mouth, single-center, randomized control trial with a equal allocation, A total of 40 patients with pubertal age of 18 to 30 years with Class I malocclusion who came to Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics for treatment and requires mandibular first premolar extraction will be taken for the study. The right and left side of the patient will be further divided into two groups (20 control and 20 experimental). In order to avoid bias resulting from interpersonal variations, the split-mouth design has been chosen. The study is an open labelled as both patients and investigators are not blinded. The outcome assessor will be blinded.

After completing levelling and alignment, the retraction will be done on stainless steel wire by taking anchorage from temporary anchorage Device. Instruction will be given to patient to use Vibrating device, which is a high-frequency vibration device at home for five minutes a day. One side will be the controlled site and other side will be experimental. Intra oral peri apical radiograph of both the sides will be taken after every 1 month for 4 months to check the anatomical variation in trabeculae pattern. The rate of tooth movement will be checked by measuring the distance between distal tip of canines and mesial tip first molar.