Study the risk of complications after dental extractions in patients recieving radiotherapy.
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.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
750
Surgery to extract teeth
Oral and Maxillofacial department
Lund, Skåne County, Sweden
Does dental extractions increase the risk for complications such as osteoradionecrosis?
Type of complication when extracting teeth in conjunction with radiotherapy.
Time frame: From diagnosis of head and neck pathology, approximately 1 month before start of radiotherapy, and to the end of the medical record which may be from one year after the oncologic treatment up to 26 years after oncologic treatment.
Does dental pathology in extracted teeth correlate with development of osteoradionecrosis?
Are any specific dental pathology more prone to develop complications than others?
Time frame: From diagnosis of head and neck pathology, approximately 1 month before start of radiotherapy, and to the end of the medical record which may be from one year after the oncologic treatment up to 26 years after oncologic treatment.
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