Radiological Examination of the Mentally Handicapped Patients

Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Profound Mental Retardation

Treatments: Other: Radiological examination

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02741011

ES-Tez01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim of this study is to evaluate the necessity of the radiological examinations of mentally handicapped or uncooperative patients.

Full description

Dental radiography has become an indispensable part of routine dental examination with the help of the technological development of radiological devices. However, medical procedures like dental treatment and medical imaging (magnetic resonance imaging-MRI, computed tomography-CT, orthopantomography- OPG, etc.) that require cooperation are usually hard to apply to mentally handicapped (MHP) or uncooperative patients (UCP). Treatments that will be done without radiological examination can be missing or incorrect.

Enrollment: 98 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Mentally Handicapped patients that radiological examination cannot performed
2. Suitable for IV sedation

Exclusion criteria

1. Healthy Patients
2. Patients in which the radiological examination performed

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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98 participants in 1 patient group

Radiological imaging

Other group

Description:

Mentally handicapped patients underwent sedation anesthesia with IV Propofol and then tomographic images were obtained with NewTom 5G. Orthopantomographies (OPGs) were obtained by processing the raw images and radiological examination of the patients were performed on OPGs.

Treatment:

Other: Radiological examination