Records dental and quality-of-life data in cancer patients getting jaw rebuilding
Collects routine dental, prosthetic and quality-of-life information from head and neck cancer patients.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- AZ Sint-Jan AV
- Where
- Bruges, BelgiumSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Prospective Registry of Prosthodontic Rehabilitation in Oncology Patients Undergoing Jaw Reconstruction
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 55 people, planned
- Started
- Jun 2013
- Expected to end
- Dec 2027
- Type of study
- Observational
- Record updated
- 28 February 2022
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The registry is looking for people with cancer in the mouth or jawbone, or with bone death of the jaw (ORN or MRONJ), who need jaw reconstruction with fixed implant-based teeth.
- Age
- All ages.
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Disease stage
- Confirmed ORN or MRONJ, or carcinoma in the mouth and jawbone that needs part or all of the jaw removed. The person can have jaw and mouth reconstruction with immediate or delayed implant loading.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Bone death (osteonecrosis) not linked to cancer or its treatment
- Medical reasons against jaw reconstruction with immediate implant loading
- People who can have a conventional removable prosthesis
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Patients of all ages
- Patients of all genders
- Patients with a histologically or clinically confirmed diagnosis of ORN, MRONJ, as classified by Ruggiero et al. (Ruggiero, et al., 2014) or carcinoma located in the oral cavity and jawbone, requiring segmental or total jaw resection
- Patients eligible for jaw and oral cavity reconstruction combined with immediate/delayed implant loading for fixed prosthetic rehabilitation
- Patients not eligible for conventional removable prosthetic rehabilitation
Who cannot take part
- Patients with medical contraindications for jaw reconstruction combined with immediate implant loading for fixed prosthetic rehabilitation
- Patients with a clinically confirmed diagnosis of osteonecrosis not related to an oncological diagnosis or treatment
- Patients eligible for conventional removable prosthetic rehabilitation
Where in Belgium
- General Hospital Saint-John BrugesBruges, BelgiumContact: Araceli Diez-Fraile, PhDTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The investigators aim to develop a prospective database in which patient demographics, surgical, dental, prosthetic and QOL parameters collected during consecutive visits within the framework of routine practice, are being registered for each oncological patient eligible for (immediate/delayed) fixed prosthodontic rehabilitation at time of oral cavity reconstruction
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Prospective Registry of Prosthodontic Rehabilitation in Oncology Patients Undergoing Jaw Reconstruction
- Plain-language title
- Records dental and quality-of-life data in cancer patients getting jaw rebuildingGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 28 February 2022