NCT04399512

Oral Health Status in Patients With Cirrhosis and Effect of Dental Treatment on MELD Score of Cirrhosis Patients

Evaluation of Oral Health Status in Patients With Cirrhosis and Effect of Dental Treatment on MELD Score of Cirrhosis Patients

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 110 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Postgraduate Institute of Dental Sciences Rohtak · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 35 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

It has been found that there is an association between prevalence of odontogenic infection and systemic diseases.Cirrhosis has also been associated with poor oral health status.Treating those patients accordingly can help in reducing the source of infection to some extent and may be associated with reduction in mortality.

Detailed description

Patients will be selected according to inclusion and exclusion criteria.Written informed consent will be taken from each participant after being informed about study .There will be two groups1) cirrhosis patients 2)normal healthy patients.Prevalence of apical periodontitis will be measured in both groups by intraoral examination,digital panoramic radiography.. MELD score will be recorded in cirrhosis patients at this stage.Non surgical root canal treatment will be performed in teeth with apical periodontitis. Periapical healing will be checked with the help of PAI Score given by Orstavik. In Cirrhosis patients MELD Score will be measured before and after treatment.

Conditions

• Liver Cirrhosis
• Periapical Lesions

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Nonsurgical root canal treatment	Nonsurgical root canal treatment will be given

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-01
• Primary completion: 2021-04-01
• Completion: 2021-06-01
• First posted: 2020-05-22
• Last updated: 2020-05-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: India