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Filter by:This protocol describes a randomized, double-arm, parallel-group, open-label controlled study that aims to evaluate the efficacy of Chinese herbal medicine on head and neck cancer patients with oral mucositis toxicities and quality of life during radiotherapy.
A prospective study will be conducted at the Department of Oral Medicine, Periodontology, Diagnosis and Oral Radiology Faculty of Dental Medicine, Assiut branch Al-Azhar University. Patients with head and neck cancer under RT, CT treatment participated in this study were selected from South Egypt Cancer Institute. During clinical examination the medical history of the patient will be recorded. Data related to base illness, type and stage of RT treatment, association or not to chemotherapy will be collected during the whole treatment. After clinical examination, the patients will receive a kit containing toothbrush, dentifrice, and subsequent oral hygiene instruction. Then the patients will be classified into 3 groups as follow: Group I (control group): the patients will be treated by using oral care only and evaluation will be done before cancer treatment and weekly till the treatment completed. Group II: the patients will be treated by using 0.15% bezaydamine hydrochloride. All patients were advised to rinse 15 mL of the solution benzydamine for 2 min, four to eight times daily before and during, and for 2 weeks after completion of cancer therapy. Group III: the patients will be treated by using a low-level laser therapy, the irradiations will be done three times a week using low power laser with a wavelength of 870 nm. The irradiation mode will be punctual and in contact, perpendicular to the oral mucosa.
Soldiers operate in environments that are more likely to lead to oral trauma, risking poor dentition which can directly impact military readiness. Dental restoration can often be accomplished via dental implant insertion. Microbiome-associated complications that result in bone loss, including the micro-leakage of bacterial species proliferating in the dental implant internal cavity, frequently lead to implant failure. Reduction in implant bacterial load may result in a shift of the composition of the microbiome in favor of less pathogenic species, potentially improving dental implant success rates, reducing surgical revisions, and associated cost savings. This study aims to determine how disinfectant gel (hydrogen peroxide or chlorhexidine) insertion into dental implant internal cavities affects implant failure rates, bacterial load and microbiome composition.
A prospective, randomized, controlled, single-blinded study will be conducted at Clinical Oncology department, Ain Shams University Hospitals, assessing the effect of Alpha Lipoic Acid on the incidence and severity of radiotherapy induced oral mucositis in Head and Neck cancer patients.
Oral mucositis (OM) is an inflammatory mucosal demolition frequently observed during treatments for neoplastic diseases such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy. The side effects of these treat-ments often drastically reduce patients' quality of life. OM are the result of the systemic consequences of chemotherapy and radiotherapy which, due to their cytotoxic and local effects, lead to pain and severe ulceration with a consequent decrease in the quality of life of affected subjects. Plasma Rich in Fibrin is often used to enhance soft tissue wound healing and fight bacterial sepsis through the presence of leukocytes within it. Aim of the retrospective study was to evaluate efficacy and safety of topic use of platelet gel in clinical management of oral mucositis in order to improve life quality of patients.
Cancer treatment, including radiation along with aggressive chemotherapy, increases the patient's survival rate. However, they possess toxic side effects. Oral mucositis is one of the most serious complications of cancer treatment, which occurs in most of patients receiving cancer therapy. Mucositis can dramatically affect the patient's quality of life .Epidermal growth factor (EGF) is a dominant factor in early keratinocyte differentiation, proliferation and migration. However, a major obstacle in most studies is that there isn't prolonged contact between the applied treatment and the oral mucosa to achieve the optimum therapeutic effect. Thus, a new vehicle for EGF is needed to achieve sufficient prolonged contact with oral mucosa. The present project aims at employing EGF as therapeutic agent for mucositis dealing with the challenges of delivery of such macromolecule to the oral mucosa by using self-healing gels to maximize the drug effect.
Chemotherapy regimens not only improve the survival of patients with gastric cancer and colorectal cancer, but also cause obvious adverse reactions of digestive tract, such as chemotherapy-induced oral mucositis, abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation and so on. These adverse reactions seriously affect the patients' quality of life and the efficacy of chemotherapy. Glutamine is a conditionally essential amino acid in the human body. Previous studies have shown that oral glutamine can help to keep the integrity of mucosal epithelium during chemotherapy and reduce the gastrointestinal side effects caused by chemotherapy. The addition of glutamine to parenteral nutrition can better maintain nitrogen balance and reduce the incidence of infection-related complications. A compound glutamine capsule, composed of L-glutamine and the traditional Chinese herbal formula Si-Jun-Zi-Tang which composed of ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos and licorice, has been widely used in China for 23 years to treat many types of gastrointestinal diseases, including gastrointestinal reactions induced by radiotherapy and chemotherapy, ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome. However, so far, only a small sample of clinical trials have explored the role of glutamine in chemical mucositis, and there is a lack of prospective randomized controlled clinical trials to further verify its value in the prevention and treatment of chemical mucositis. The purpose of this study is to observe the efficacy and safety between a compound glutamine capsule and placebo in the prevention of chemotherapy-induced mucositis in patients with gastric cancer and colorectal cancer in a prospective, randomized, double-blind clinical trial.
Although smoking has been proposed as well, as a risk factor/indicator for peri-implantitis, there is currently no conclusive evidence. The current literature confronts the inconclusive evidence of tobacco for a risk factor. Therefore, the aim of the present investigation is to determine the association between tobacco and peri-implantitis in sample of patients who had received therapy implant-supported restorative therapy in a university setting. The present study was designed as a retrospective case control study in a sample of patients with implant-supported restorative therapy 7-19 years after restorative phase. The study was conducted at the Clinica Universitaria d'Odontologia (CUO) in the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) for 1 month and was performed following the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki (revised, amended, and clarified in 2013. Prior to enrol the study a written informed consent was signed. Patients provided with implant-supported restorative therapy between 2001-2013 was selected from the UIC database. The sample was divided in three groups: healthy patients, patients with mucositis and patients with peri-implantitis. During the examination, the clinician reviewed with the patient the Information and Medication History Forms and record the anthropometric, socio-demographic and clinical information. An initial questionnaire was conducted to obtain information regarding age, gender, medical history, medication, and health behaviour. Candidates underwent an oral pathology examination and a full-mouth probing using a standardize pressure (20N) probe SONDA PA_ON (Orange Dental®, Aspachstr, Biberach, Germany) to determine their periodontal and peri-implant status. All statistical analyses were performed with the package RStudio (V2.5). Descriptive characteristics regarding all the covariates were summarized. Periimplant bone loss (95% Confidence Interval - 95% CI) were calculated both at implant- and at patient-level. A multilevel regression model will be applied to evaluate the influence of some risk/protective indicators on the risk for peri-implant bone loss. Risk/protective indicators for periimplantitis will be studied using multilevel (mixed-effects) multivariate regression analyses (patient- and implant-level). Each potential indicator was tested individually by adding it to an empty model having as dependent variable the peri-implant status and testing the significance.
This study is to investigate the use of the Cooral ® standardized CyT device to achieve a constant and reproducible cooling of the oral mucosa to prevent OM in patients undergoing RT in the head and neck region.
Oral health is crucial for palliative patients' quality of life. The evidence on effective interventions and measures of oral mucositis in palliative care is sparse. This is a single-center, prospective, uncontrolled open label Phase 2 non-profit study, aimed at evaluating a propolis-based product (FARINGEL PLUS) added to basic oral hygiene safety, acceptability and activity in preventing and treating oral mucositis in patients in palliative care. A two-step design was adopted according to Simon's Optimum approach, with an overall sample of 77 evaluable cases (step1_26 cases; step2_51 cases).