Rehabilitation With an Obturator in Maxillary Defects

Menoufia University

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Mucormycosis

Treatments: Other: Delayed surgical obturator

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06515743

ADMNF-0020424

Details and patient eligibility

About

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a lot of reporting of COVID-19-associated mucormycosis cases. Managing this condition posed a new challenge to clinicians. Management includes therapeutic drugs and aggressive surgical debridement. Due to the unpredictability of disease prognosis and the possible recurrence of the disease, rehabilitation with delayed surgical obturators is beneficial for patients. Hence, the current study aimed to evaluate the impact of delayed surgical obturators on quality of life of COVID-19-associated mucormycosis patients post-maxillectomies

Full description

Globally, the prevalence of mucormycosis varied from 0.005 to 1.7 per million population, while its prevalence is nearly 80 times higher (0.14 per 1000) in India compared to developed countries, in a recent estimate of year 2019-2020.

Among the medical professionals involved in managing patients with mucormycosis, maxillofacial prosthodontists are responsible for prosthetic restoration of lost oral and maxillofacial structures, helping patients to socialize and have an acceptable quality of life after surgical treatment

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

*Patients who underwent partial, subtotal and hemi-maxillectomy due to COVID-19-associated mucormycosis and who needed the prosthetic rehabilitation with delayed surgical obturator.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who are unwilling for the study.
• Patients who underwent which bilateral maxillectomies.
• Patients having extensive palatal mucosal loss.