In the active group, treatment was unsuccessful and had to be changed in three patients (3/54), but in the control group there were no cases of failure leading to treatment changes. In two of these unsuccessful cases, the radiographs at 1 month revealed that the fractures had severely displaced after removal of the plaster cast at 10 days. In the first patient, the fracture had displaced in dorsal angulation, and because of constant pain and inferior functioning of the wrist, the patient underwent osteotomy, reduction and volar plate fixation after the 1-month follow-up.