Oral Perception and Alzheimer's disease: long-term evaluatio
- Conditions
- Alzheimer Disease
- Registration Number
- RBR-7c5svrv
- Lead Sponsor
- Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba - FOP/UNICAMP
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Present good general health status or presence of controlled systemic diseases assessed during the anamnesis; be completely edentulous and have unsatisfactory complete dentures according to the Vigild criteria; be between 65 and 80 years old; and normal salivary flow of 0.6 ml/min or more. Patients in the experimental group must meet the criteria mentioned above and have a confirmed diagnosis of mild Alzheimer's disease by a neurologist using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10); Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV); Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE); and Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) with a score of 1.0 or less
Participants with oral lesions; neuromuscular diseases; facial malformations; bruxism (with the presence of an edentulous tongue) and smokers (due to reduced salivary flow) will be excluded.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method It is expected to find a difference in oral sensory capacity in individuals with mild Alzheimer's disease, compared to individuals with normal cognitive function, verified through the oral stereognosis test, in which a 3-point scale will be used to classify the answers as correct (2 points), partially correct (incorrect, but a form considered similar to the one presented was identified; 1 point), and incorrect (0 points). Thus, higher scores will indicate greater oral sensory capacity of the individual.;It is expected that prosthetic rehabilitation will promote improvements in the oral perception of volunteers with mild Alzheimer's disease and normal cognition, verified through the oral stereognosis test, in which higher scores will indicate greater oral sensory capacity of the individual, in addition to considering the time needed to identify each geometric shape.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method o secondary outcomes are expected.