The efficacy of chewing gum for pain control during orthodontic treatment

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• Conditions: Dental Pain, Orthodontics; E06.658; C07.793.929

• Registration Number: RBR-9p9drm
• Lead Sponsor: São Leopoldo Mandic

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-09-10
• Last Update Posted: 29 May 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Data analysis completed
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

Inclusion Criteria

Patientes with aged 13 until 40 years; complete permanent dentition; moderate crowding.

Exclusion Criteria

Patients with elastic separators, phenylalanine allergy, TMJ symptoms, chronic use of analgesics and those that would need to use medicine for any other reason were excluded from the study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Intervention
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Was hoped that less pain could ocurr in patientes of group I than group II, showing the efficacy of chew gum in pain control in orthodontics treatment.Based on the variation of pain scores from 24 to 72h of group I (-2.93±3.02) a power of 98.2% was estimated in showing of treatment 1 (n=20) in reducing post-treatment pain. Similarly, based on the variation of pain scores from 24 to 72h of group II (-1.78±1.93) a power of 95.5% was estimated in showing the efficacy of treatment 2 (n= 18) in reducing post-treatment pain (p<0.05, paired t test).;The results did not demonstrate a statistically significant difference between the groups I and II, that showed not efficacy in chew gum in pain control during orthodontics treatment.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
ot expected secundary outcomes.