Increase of Handgrip Strength After the Use of Removable Partial Dentures.

Sarcopenia Clinical Trial

Official title:

Increase of Handgrip Strength After the Use of Removable Partial Dentures.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04606745
• Other study ID #: HDEN
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Start date: October 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: October 2020
• Source: Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

A common goal of the health professions is to keep the elderly functional, preventing sarcopenia and frailty. Is there an association between handgrip strength in partially edentulous elderlies after completing their dentition with removable partial dentures?

Description:

A common goal of the health professions is to keep the elderly functional, preventing sarcopenia and frailty. Is there an association between handgrip strength in partially edentulous elderlies after completing their dentition with removable partial dentures?

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 60
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 80 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• agree to participate by signing the voluntary informed consent form

• qualify according to the Eichner Index in any of the categories that represent the loss of premolars and molars: B3-B4-C1-and C2.

Exclusion Criteria:

• not accepting to participate

• cognitive or auditory sensory impairment-

• being dependent in activities of daily living

• belonging to another category of the Eichner Index

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Sarcopenia

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Chile	Universidad de Chile	Santiago

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Chile, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Handgrip strength	role of use of removable partial dentures (RPD) in handgrip strength in octogenarians	18 months