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RecruitingNCT07660146Updated Jun 22, 2026

Validity of Ashley Howe's Analysis for the Prediction of the Extraction Treatment Decision in Orthodontic Patients at the Permanent Dentition Stage

An observational study in Dental Crowding, sponsored by Cairo University. Recruiting at 1 site in Egypt. Open to participants aged 12 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-06-22.

Sponsored by Cairo University · Observational

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Feb 2026; still recruiting 9 months later.
Study type
Observational
Model
Case-only
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Enrollment
50
Ages
12 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is to evaluate the validity of Ashley Howe's analysis for the prediction of the extraction treatment decision in orthodontic patients at the permanent dentition stage

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Conditions studied

  • Dental Crowding

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In context

Crowding

88 studies on the registry are indexed under Crowding; 22 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 50 is below the median of 664 across 14 observational studies indexed under Crowding.

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Lead sponsor

Cairo University is the lead sponsor of 4,941 studies on the registry; 1,458 are open to participants now.

Of its 37 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 5 (14%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
12 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Probability sample

Study population

Maxillary models of cases with malocclusion.

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Inclusion criteria

  • Maxillary models of cases with malocclusion.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

-

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Study design

Observational model
Case-only
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Enrollment
50 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No

Interventions

  • Diagnostic testAshley Howe's Analysis

    It's a cast analysis method to corelate the amount of tooth material to the size of the basal bone.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Value of the Ashly Howe's analysis measured on digital models comapring the basal bone width versus total tooth material.

    Time frame: Baseline

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Feb 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Feb 2027, 12 months after the start.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jun 13, 2026
First posted
Jun 22, 2026
StartActual
Feb 1, 2026
Primary completionEst.
Feb 1, 2027
CompletionEst.
Feb 1, 2027
Last update
Jun 22, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jun 22, 2026, 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
NCT07660146
Lead sponsor
Cairo University
Responsible party
Mohamed Abd El-Ghafour (Associate Professor, Cairo University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jun 22, 2026
Start date
Feb 1, 2026
Primary completion
Feb 1, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Feb 1, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Jun 22, 2026

Study contacts

Mohamed Abd-El-Ghafour, PhD
Contact
m.abdelghafour@dentistry.cu.edu.eg
+201007433288

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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