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NCT04210921
Clinical Efficacy of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD)
NA trial testing Acupuncture in Temporomandibular Disorders in 60 participants. Status unknown.
30 June 2020
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Status unknown |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | single |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 60 |
| Start date | 1 April 2019 |
| Primary completion | 30 June 2020 |
| Estimated completion | 30 June 2020 |
| Sites | 1 location across China |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Acupuncture — full drug profile →
- The park sham needle
Conditions studied
- Temporomandibular Disorders — all drugs for Temporomandibular Disorders →
Sponsor
Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Who can join
Adults 18 to 80, any sex, with Temporomandibular Disorders. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
This is a single-blinded, randomized controlled trial to explore the effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of the pain due to TMD using the latest diagnostic criteria combined with subjective and objective indexes.
Publications & conference data
2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Effect of acupuncture for temporomandibular disorders: a randomized clinical trial.
Liu L, Chen Q, Lyu T, Zhao L, et al · · 2024 · cited 9× · PMID 38710498 · DOI 10.1093/qjmed/hcae094 -
Differential placebo effect of sham acupuncture for chronic pain: a network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Wan R, Zheng Q, Zeng X, Luo Y, et al · · 2025 · cited 2× · PMID 40890765 · DOI 10.1186/s12906-025-05055-x
Verify or expand the search:
- PubMed search for NCT04210921
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04210921 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Last refreshed: 26 December 2019
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