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Status unknownNCT01989715Updated Jul 24, 2014

Body Posture Assessment Considering Jaws Position Before and After Orthognathic Surgery on Adult Patient.

An interventional study of analyzing the position of the body, muscle activity in Orthognathic Surgery, sponsored by Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille. Status unknown at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 60 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2014-07-24.

Sponsored by Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille · Not applicable and Interventional

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Jul 2014), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
27
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 60 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Postural balance on both feet, characteristic of the human species, is possible by the tension of muscle of the whole body from toes to head.

Body position depends on many inputs such as vision, vestibule, skin receptors, states of muscle tension receptors. Information is integrated in a complex nervous system via the ascending and descending pathways. The information is then analyzed to provide feedback on body position. Any variation of body position, induces a variation of the center of pressure. Impaired body positioncan cause pain (back pain, neck pain) or long-term deformation (including scoliosis or kyphosis).

Maxillas position, via the activity of masseter and temporal muscles, acts on the muscle chain that controls posture. Incorrect positioning of the jaw in the three directions of space seems to create an asymmetric masticatory muscles activity and thus destabilize the muscle chain responsible for body position. Repositioning maxillas by orthognathic surgery could alter the body posture via changing the activity of the masticatory muscles.

However, nowadays no clear link has been demonstrated between maxillas repositioning and body posture modification.

The purpose of this study is to highlight the link between posture and jaws position, by analyzing the variation of the masticatory muscles activity and, the changes in body center of pressure before and after orthognathic surgery of jaws standardization.

In this study each patient will be evaluated in terms of occlusion and body posture before surgery and after surgery (2 months) by the same protocol. The surgery will be performed in the Maxillofacial Surgery service - Pr BLANC and assessment will take place in the dentistry department - Prof. Salvadori La Timone Hospital, Marseille.

The assessment includes the body posture study with a stabilometric platform (eyes open / eyes closed and with / without tooth contact), and analysis of the head orientation relative to the vertical. Electromyographic muscle masseter assessment (jaw with/without contact ) are devoted to check the evolution of the developed forces, and hand strength will be recorded using a dynamometer.

All these data will be recorded for all the patients. Patients will be divided into four subgroups: (1) maxillary endognathia, (2) mandibular prognathism , (3) mandibular retrognathia and (4 mandible repositioning.

Statistical analysis is aimed at validating or not the hypothesis of changes in body posture caused by surgical maxillas repositioning.

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Conditions studied

  • Orthognathic Surgery
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In context

Lead sponsor

Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille is the lead sponsor of 686 studies on the registry; 148 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 60 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Adult patients (18 to 60 years)
  • patients waiting for orthognathic surgery

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patient prone to vertigo, dizziness, loss of understanding are, accouphènes.
  • Patient with acute pain of migraine-type neck pain, back pain, arthritis, tendonitis.
  • Patient with oral pain (acute periodontitis, caries, abscesses)
  • Patient with orthopedic prosthesis.
  • Patient on muscle relaxant treatment, tranquilizer, antidepressant
  • Patient over 60 years of age.
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
27 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    adult patients waiting for orthognathic surgery

    Other: analyzing the position of the body, muscle activity

Interventions

  • Otheranalyzing the position of the body, muscle activity
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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. postural assessment

    Analysis before and after orthognathic surgery

    Time frame: 6 mois

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Marseille
    Marseille, 13356, France
    Recruiting
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 24, 2014, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT01989715
Lead sponsor
Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 21, 2013
Start date
Oct 2013
Primary completion
Nov 2014 (estimated)
Completion
May 2015 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 24, 2014

Study contacts

francois cheynet
Contact
francois.cheynet@ap-hm.fr
LOIC MONDOLONI
study director · Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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