The aims of this study were to compare health related quality of life, comforts degrees,retention effectiveness, and failure rates as well as survival times between two clear overlay retainers with different thicknesses, thus to provide basis information regarding appropriate selections of the thickness of clear overlay retainers.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
TRIPLE
Enrollment
80
24 h wearing whether 0.75-mm-thick or 1.00-mm-thick film retainer
Survival times via recording to the patients' re-visit
Time frame: one year
SF-36 scale for Quality of life
Time frame: one month
Comfort degrees assessed through Visual Analog Score
Time frame: one month
Retention effectiveness assessed according to 3D models
Time frame: one year
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