NCT02741011

Radiological Examination of the Mentally Handicapped Patients

Computed Tomographic Assessment of the Maxillofacial Region of Mentally Handicapped or Uncooperative Patients Under Intravenous Sedation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 98 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Conditions

• Profound Mental Retardation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Radiological examination	During the period of two years, mentally handicapped patients were enrolled in this study. First a radiological examination was performed under sedation anesthesia and then an oral examination was performed when patient underwent general anesthesia for dental treatments. Oral and radiological examinations were compared with each other and also with treatment results to define the necessity of the radiological examination of mentally handicapped patients.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-02-01
• Primary completion: 2014-02-01
• Completion: 2014-02-01
• First posted: 2016-04-18
• Last updated: 2016-04-18