Status:
COMPLETED
Periodontal Treatment Associated With Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Lead Sponsor:
Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saude Publica
Conditions:
Periodontal Disease
Eligibility:
All Genders
30-65 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Evaluation of the clinical effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) adjunctively to scaling and root planing (SRP) in the treatment of severe case of chronic periodontitis.
Detailed Description
Materials and Methods: In 20 patients diagnosed with severe generalized chronic periodontitis (pockets\>7mm) with bleeding on probing, SRP was rendered in all pockets. Additionally, five consecutive h...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Inclusion criteria:
- This preliminary (pilot) study was designed with twenty subjects (12 men, 8 women, mean age 37.3 years) selected from a pool of 360 patients referred to the Periodontal Clinic of the School of Dentistry at Bahian Science Foundation (FBDC, Bahia, Brazil).
- The patients had an initial diagnosis of severe generalized chronic periodontitis (AAP 1999).
- Exclusion criteria:
- Patients were excluded according to the following criteria:
- smoking
- pregnancy or lactation
- antibiotics or periodontal treatment within the last 6 months
- a diagnosis of aggressive periodontitis
- trauma from occlusion or endodontic lesions
- According to an accurate clinical examination performed by a hyperbaric medical doctor (MD), the HBOT contra-indications (Iazzeti \& Mantovani 1998) served as exclusion criteria.
- The only absolute contraindication to hyperbaric oxygen therapy was from patients with untreated pneumothorax
- Relative contraindications were considered:
- upper respiratory infections
- high fevers
- emphysema with CO2 retention
- historic of thoracic surgery
- malignant disease and middle ear barotrauma
- Patients taking or have recently taken the following drugs:
- doxorubicin (Adriamycin®)
- disulfiram (Antabuse®)
- Cis-platinum and mafenide acetate (Sulfamylon®).
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
March 1 2002
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
April 1 2003
Estimated Enrollment :
20 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00955643
Start Date
March 1 2002
End Date
April 1 2003
Last Update
August 10 2009
Active Locations (1)
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EBMSP Central Clinic
Salvador, Estado de Bahia, Brazil, 40000