The Impact of Dental Health on Complications During and Following Radiotherapy in the Head and Neck Region.

Lund University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Radiotherapy; Complications; Extracting Own Teeth; Head and Neck Neoplasms

Treatments: Procedure: Dentoalveolar surgery

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06840639

LundUH2

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study the risk of complications after dental extractions in patients recieving radiotherapy.

Full description

Dental extractions before radiotherapy in the head and neck region is an established part of the treatment plan for patients with malignant disease. There are contradictory results in the literature regarding the importance timing and magnitude of extractions. It is important to minimize complications in this patient group since the regular therapy is already detrimental to the affected tissues. Patients were extracted from the ARTSCAN register were the population was followed for 4 years for several factors, including development of osteoradionecrosis. The aim is to evaluate which diagnoses are more prone to develop complications after extraction. If there is a relationship between occurrence of complication and magnitude of dental pathology.

Enrollment: 750 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Malignant diagnosis
• radiotherapy pre or postoperative

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

750 participants in 2 patient groups

Dental extractions with complications

Description:

patients recieving dental extractions and developing osteoradionecrosis

Treatment:

Procedure: Dentoalveolar surgery

Dental extractions without complications

Description:

patients recieving dental extractions and not developing osteoradionecrosis