Occlusal Splint and Counseling to Temporomandibular Disorder
Unknown statusPhase 3NCT01544439
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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 aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the splint occlusal associated with counseling in reducing pain in patients with temporomandibular disorders, under the assumption that the occlusal appliance offers the highest rates of improvement than their placebo.
Study details
- Official title
- The Efficacy of Occlusal Stabilization Appliance Associated to Counseling in the Management of Myofascial Pain Chronic and in the Improvement of the Quality of Life of Patients With Temporomandibular Disorders
- Conditions
- Temporomandibular Disorders
- Stress Psychological
- Musculoskeletal Diseases
- Interventions
- Procedure: stabilizing appliance
- Procedure: Non-occluding splint, counseling
- Sponsor
- Patra-cia Rocha Coelho
- Collaborators
- Federal University of Juiz de Fora
- Organization
- Federal University of Juiz de Fora
- Start date
- 2012-03
- Primary completion
- 2012-05
- Sex
- Female
- Age range
- from 20 Years to 55 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Brazil
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: All subjects participated in this study volunteers by signing the consent form. Inclusion criteria are as follows: * female subjects; * aged 20 to 55 years; * irrespective of race, social status or religion; * presence of pain intensity of at least moderate (at least 4.0 on VAS), shown in the first clinical assessment; * diagnosis of myofascial pain persisting for a minimum period of six months. Exclusion Criteria: * history of psychiatric disorders or treatment for neurological or psychological disorders; * volunteers with severe intellectual or physical disability that would hinder the collection of data; * history of systemic diseases that generate joint symptoms, muscle or rheumatologic, such as rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia; * pain attributed to a well-defined local cause, such as pulpitis, trigeminal neuralgia and cancer pain; * attributable to migraine pain or infection; * report of any previous treatment for TMD; * treatment with drugs affecting the central nervous system (muscle relaxants, anticonvulsants, opioids, and antidepressants) and treatment with analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs, with or without prescription, concomitant therapies to be instituted in this research; * report of facial trauma as a possible etiology of TMD; * subject denture wearers an upper or lower; * volunteers aged under 20 or over 55 years; * male individuals.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01544439