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Filter by:The goal of this clinical trial is to test a three-item intervention in oral surgeons who remove teeth. The main questions it aims to answer are: - Can the intervention reduce opioid prescriptions to adolescents and young adults after tooth removal? - Do oral surgeons' beliefs about the intervention and opioid prescribing change? - Do patients that report using opioids after tooth removal have different experiences than patients that do not? Oral surgeon participants will: - Attend a 1-hour education session with a trained pharmacist - Receive patient instructions and blister packs of pain medicine to give to patients - Complete 2 surveys about feasibility and appropriateness Patient participants will complete a survey about pain and medication use after having a tooth removed. Researchers will compare the intervention to usual care to see if it reduces opioid prescribing.
Soft tissue contour and radiographic evaluation of alveolar ridge preservation using different techniques Background: Following tooth extraction, the alveolar ridge undergoes an inevitable remodeling process which influences future implant therapy or prosthetic rehabilitation in the edentulous area. In an attempt to attenuate the loss of hard and soft tissue after tooth loss, alveolar ridge preservation (ARP) immediately after complete tooth extraction could minimize the need for ancillary ridge augmentation or soft tissue grafting. Different techniques and barrier membranes has been proposed to achieve the sealing of extraction socket. Aim: To investigate the effect of different techniques and barrier membranes for the soft tissue contour and morphological change of alveolar ridge after ARP Methods: The study was designed as a randomized controlled trial and recruited patients, who require ARP for the purpose of implant placement or prosthodontic rehabilitation. After the tooth extraction, patients were randomly allocated to one of the following groups: ridge preservation with a xenogeneic bone substitute and (a) spontaneous healing (control), (b) covered with a free palatal graft, (c) or covered with pedical palatal graft, (d) covered with a collagen membrane, (e) covered with a non-resorbable high-density polytetrafluoroethylene membrane. 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 12 weeks, and 24 weeks following tooth extraction and ARP, clinical profilometric and radiographic evaluations were performed to analyze the change of hard and soft tissue contour. Moreover, and the need for additional guided bone regeneration (GBR) or soft tissue augmentation were assessed prior implants or fixed prosthesis placement.
Mid-facial recession following immediate implant placement (IIP) in the place of a tooth poses a significant challenge for clinicians to treat. Emerging evidence shows that connective tissue graft (CTG) augmentation may mitigate the remodeling of the buccal bone crest (i.e., bone within the gum that supports the tooth), and lessen the soft tissue recession. A recent systemic review suggested a supplemental CTG grafting to IIP as a standard of care, especially for cases that have a high esthetic risk, specifically with a thin gingival biotype (i.e., thin gum tissue) and a thin buccal bone plate. The alternative option to augment the facial contour is the xenogeneic volume-stable collagen matrix (VCMX), which favors avoiding morbidity but hasn't been thoroughly investigated on IIP. Despite that IIP has attracted considerable scientific interest, the dynamic changes of the bone crest and soft tissue, especially during the early healing stage (<3 months following IIP), are little known. Recently, an ultrasonography protocol has been validated for its diagnostic value in dental implant research. High-frequency B-mode imaging and color flow and power Doppler are implemented to display the spatial relation of anatomic landmarks of peri-implant tissues and to visualize the flow velocity and blood volume, respectively. It provides a valuable real-time diagnostic tool to evaluate hard and soft tissue remodeling and tissue perfusion changes during the early healing stage around IIP, comparing CTG and VCMX grafting. Hence, the purpose of this three-arm RCT is to compare the clinical efficacy and longitudinal remodeling of hard and soft tissue around IIP among CTG, VCMX, and control (without soft tissue augmentation) group. This will be the first evidence of the longitudinal tissue changes around immediate implant, and the first RCT comparing the clinical efficacy and esthetic outcome of xenogenic soft tissue substitute (i.e., from the non-living bone of another species) to the gold standard approach (CTG) on the immediate implants.