Radiological Examination of the Mentally Handicapped Patients

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Profound Mental Retardation
• Interventions: Other: Radiological examination

• Registration Number: NCT02741011
• Lead Sponsor: Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University

Brief Summary

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

Detailed 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-02
• Primary Completion: 2014-02
• Study Completion: 2014-02
• Study First Submitted: 2016-02-24
• Status Verified: 2016-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-04-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-04-12
• Study First Posted: 2016-04-18
• Last Update Posted: 2016-04-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 98

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Radiological imaging	Radiological examination	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.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Comparison of the radiological and oral examinations in mentally handicapped patients	2 years	Radiological images of the mentally handicapped patients obtained under sedation anesthesia with cone beam dental tomography. Radiological examination were performed on tomograpic images and indications (tooth filling, root canal treatment, extraction) were noted. Same procedure was performed for oral examination and indications were compared.