Research - Clinical Studies
The UNC School of Dentistry's research center, the North Carolina Oral Health Institute, is the core establishment for conducting a wide range of dental related research. Many of these studies need volunteers or patients in order to obtain sufficient data.
Other Clinical Studies (Not Currently Looking for Patients)
- A Comparison of Three Acoustic Devices to Evaluate Nasalance (Completed)
- A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Efficacy of Grafting the Facial Gap at Immediately Placed Implants in the Anterior Maxilla (Active, But Not Recruiting)
- A Randomized Parallel Method Development Study Comparing Clinical to Subclinical Effects from Oral Cleaning Modalities (Completed)
- ARRA Supplement Functional Outcomes of Cleft Lip Surgery (Completed)
- Carolina Oral Health Literacy (COHL) Project (Active, But Not Recruiting)
- Clinical Investigation of a New Low-Shrink Resin Composite Restorative in the Restoration of Posterior Teeth (Active, But Not Recruiting)
- Co-articulated oral stops as a component of posterior nasal fricatives produced by children with and without cleft palate (Completed)
- Complications with an Implant-Supported Dental Prosthesis in the Maxilla (Completed)
- Functional Imaging of CNS Regulatory Processes (Completed)
- Functional Outcomes of Cleft Lip Surgery (Completed)
- Functional Outcomes of Cleft Lip Surgery: Utility of Objective Measures (Active, But Not Recruiting)
- Hair Cortisol as a Biomarker of Chronic HPA Axis Response to Stress (Completed)
- Multi-sensory Processing in Autism (Completed)
- Palatal tactile sensitivity in adults with repaired cleft lip and palate (Completed)
- Randomized blinded placebo-controlled clinical trial of caloric vestibular neurostimulation in patients with chronic TMD (Enrolling by Invitation)
- Snoring and Performance in Collegiate Athletes (Active, But Not Recruiting)
- The Impact of Oral Health Literacy on Periodontal Health Status (Completed)
- Three Intraoral Radiographic Receptor-Positioning Systems: A Comparative Study (Active, But Not Recruiting)
- UNC HIV Oral Health Demonstration Project (Completed)


