Occlusal Adjustment as Treatment for Chronic Orofacial Pain
CompletedPhase 1, Phase 2NCT00899717
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The purpose of this study is to determine whether occlusal adjustment by selective grinding and/or occlusal addition is an effective treatment of chronic temporomandibular joint disorders.
Study details
- Official title
- Basis for an Etiological Diagnosis and Treatment of the Chronic TMD-pain: RCT Study
- Conditions
- Temporomandibular Joint Disorders
- Orofacial Pain
- Interventions
- Procedure: Occlusal adjustment
- Procedure: Placebo occlusal adjustment
- Sponsor
- University of Santiago de Compostela
- Start date
- 2009-05
- Primary completion
- 2009-06
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Countries
- Spain
- Total sites listed
- 2
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * People suitable for inclusion in the study are full dentate patients * Aged between 18 and 65 years * Patients with chronic TMD pain (and usually with associated limited mouth opening) for whom occlusal adjustment could achieve normal occlusion, both static and functionally equilibrated Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnancy * Trauma * Previous TMJ surgery * Patient refusal to consent to participate in the study or significant concerns about the study * Limited collaboration * Concurrent active treatment with orthodontics, and active periodontal disease
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00899717