Dental Monitoring: Patients in this arm are not required to attend in-office retention appointments except if they have any problems with their retainers and when data collection is necessary. Instead they are required to submit scans of their teeth through the DM mobile application at the designated intervals.
Clinic Review: Patients in this arm are required to attend in clinic appointments for their retention review
Study summary
To assess whether using retainers and an artificial intelligence supported remote monitoring system maintains a more stable orthodontic treatment result than using retainers with in-office review appointments.
Eligibility
Sex
ALL
Min age
12 Years
Max age
—
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Inclusion Criteria:
* Consent to participate in the trial and comply with the retention regime and able to follow instructions
* Permanent dentition
* Good general health
* Good oral hygiene and good periodontal health
* Owning or having access to a mobile/smart phone compatible with Dental monitoring application (DM app is available for use on all iOS and Android devices)
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patients with
* Congenital anomalies or craniofacial syndromes
* Poor oral hygiene and poor periodontal health
* Missing teeth \& teeth with poor enamel quality
* Patients that were treated with orthognathic surgery
* Patients that are unwilling or unable to follow the instructions provided
Primary outcome measure(s)
Orthodontic treatment stability - Little's Irregularity Index — 4 years The sum of the linear displacements of five labial segment contact point in a labiolingual direction
Orthodontic treatment stability - Spacing if present — 4 years The sum of the linear distances between contact points of teeth that have space between them
Orthodontic treatment stability - Inter-canine width — 4 years Distance between the cusp tips of right and left canines
Orthodontic treatment stability - Inter-molar width — 4 years Distance between the mesiobuccal cusp tips of the right and left first permanent molars
Orthodontic treatment stability - Overjet — 4 years The maximum distance between the upper incisors edge and the lower incisal labial surface
Orthodontic treatment stability - Overbite — 4 years The maximum vertical overlap between the upper and lower incisors with the models in maximal intercuspation
Trial sites (1)
Facility
City
Region
Status
Sydney Dental Hospital
Surry Hills
New South Wales
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This page summarises publicly available registry data for informational purposes — not medical advice. Eligibility is determined by each study team; patients should discuss participation with their clinician.
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