# Restoring Masticatory Function to Treat Chronic Pain

> **NCT02144233** · NA · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Urbano Santana Penin, MD, DDS, PhD** · enrollment: 77 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction Syndrome
- Chronic Pain

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Occlusal adjustment
- **PROCEDURE:** Placebo occlusal adjustment

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT02144233
- **Lead sponsor:** Urbano Santana Penin, MD, DDS, PhD
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2014-08
- **Primary completion:** 2018-06-15
- **Final completion:** 2018-06-15
- **Target enrollment:** 77 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Interim analysis showed benefice of one therapy over the other one.
- **Last updated:** 2020-04-22

## Collaborators

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## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02144233

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02144233, "Restoring Masticatory Function to Treat Chronic Pain". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT02144233. Licensed CC0.

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