Pilot Study to Evaluate the Use of OroScience Topical Oral Wound Emulsion in Post Operative Wound Healing

OroScience

Status: Completed

Conditions: Oral Surgical Procedures; Pain

Treatments: Device: OroScience Topical Oral Wound Emulsion

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT00596141

ORO_PG_LSU_1_08

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this pilot study is to determine if Topical Oral Wound Emulsion (TOWE) assists with dental wound healing and relieves pain from oral wounds.

Enrollment: 17 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Planned dental treatment includes intraoral surgery involving full thickness mucoperiosteal flaps with at least one vertical releasing incision

Exclusion criteria

• Complicated medical history
• History of poor patient compliance
• Presence or placement of materials beneath the suture site

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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17 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

Conventional postoperative care and instructions on dental hygiene will be provided along with the TOWE treatment which consists of the patient dispensing TOWE into a disposable dental tray and placing the dental tray over the dental arch and covering the surgical site 3 times daily for a period of 7 days. At three (3) days and seven (7) days postoperatively, photographs will be taken of all vertical releasing incisions (before suture removal).

Treatment:

Device: OroScience Topical Oral Wound Emulsion

2

No Intervention group

Description:

Conventional postoperative care and instructions on dental hygiene.