Accuracy of Dental Contacts of an Occlusal Splint Made According to Conventional or Digital Techniques Using GeoMagic®.

Universitat Internacional de Catalunya40 enrolled

Overview

To compare the accuracy of the occlusal splints made by conventional impression and milled with the splint made by intraoral scanner and milled.

Forty participants received two different occlusal devices from two different workflows (fully conventional and fully digital). Every splint was scanned before and after the occlusal adjustments in order to compare the volumetric changes. Furthermore, the scans were compared in a software Geomagic® Control X calculates and measures the distance from every surface point from the initial dataset (occlusal devices before adjustment) to the final dataset (occlusal device after adjustment).

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Occlusal Splints

Interventions

Occlusal Splints Analogic-AnalogicOTHER

Take a conventional impression to the patient and conventional fabrication of the splint.

Occlusal Splints Analogic-DigitalOTHER

Take a conventional impression to the patient and digital fabrication of the splint.

Occlusal Splints Digital-DigitalOTHER

Take a digital impression to the patient and digital fabrication of the splint.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 70 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients between 18 to 70 years old. * Patients who maintain until first molar in both arches. * Patients who need occlusal splints due to bruxism. Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnant patients. * Patients with removable prostheses. * Patients with fixed prostheses between six to six in both arches. * Patients with partial edentulism, do not maintain until first molar in both arches. * Patients with Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD): articular noises, pain on palpation, limited opening.

Locations (1)

Blasi Clinica Dental Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Volumetric changes assessed in Root Mean Square (RMS)

The software of automatically graphical comparisons called Geomagic® Control X (Geomagic Inc., 3D Systems Inc., USA) will be used to calculate the accuracy by measuring the distance (positive or negative) from every surface point from the initial dataset (occlusal devices before adjustment) to the final dataset (occlusal device after adjustment). This approach will give us the mean of the simple arithmetic difference.

Time frame: 1 week

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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