NCT03035825

Efficacy of Oral Moisturizing Jelly on Oral Health and Nutrition in Post-radiotherapy Head and Neck Cancer Patients

A Randomized Controlled Trial for Efficacy of Oral Moisturizing Jelly on Oral Health and Nutrition in Post-radiotherapy Head and Neck Cancer Patients With Xerostomia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 73 (actual)
• Sponsor: Dental Innovation Foundation Under Royal Patronage · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This randomized control trial aims to investigate the efficacy of oral moisturizing jelly in head and neck cancer patients with xerostomia.

Detailed description

Oral moisturizing jelly is a novel edible, gel-based artificial saliva. It has been proven effective in reducing dry mouth sign and symptoms in elderly patients with xerostomia. This randomized control trial intends to determine if continuous use of oral moisturizing jelly may be effective in reduction of signs and symptoms of dry mouth, improvement of biochemical properties of saliva, subjective swallow ability, appetite, tolerance to spicy food, energy intake and reduce umami taste recognition threshold.

Conditions

• Cancer of Head Neck
• Radiation-Induced Xerostomia
• Dry Mouth

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Oral moisturizing jelly	Gel-based artificial saliva is an edible non-nutritious gel intended to relieve dry mouth
OTHER	Artificial saliva	A non-edible oral lubricating gel for dry mouth patients

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-03-01
• Primary completion: 2019-01-30
• Completion: 2019-01-30
• First posted: 2017-01-30
• Last updated: 2019-02-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Thailand