Clinical trial NCT05419778: Alveolar Ridge Preservation Procedures
Official title: Clinical Evaluation Of Soft Tissue Closure In Alveolar Ridge Preservation Procedures
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Alveolar Ridge Preservation
Keywords: Bone
OsteoGen
Cortico-Cancellous
Foreign body reaction
Lead sponsor: University of Tennessee
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-06-15
Enrollment: 14
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_CROSSOVER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Up to twenty (20) participants, at least 12 years old, needing a tooth (teeth) extraction(s) with a combined extraction site preservation treatment of 20 extraction sites.

Brief summary: Tooth loss is accompanied by different patterns of bone loss. Up to 50% loss of alveolar crestal bone width will likely occur 1 year after tooth loss, especially in the anterior maxilla. A great percentage of the process of alveolar bone resorption occurs within the first 3 to 6 months post-extraction. If ridge preservation is not conducted, 40%-60% of the total alveolar bone volume is lost during the first 2-3 years post-extraction, and this phenomenon has shown to continue to occur at a rate of 0.25%-0.5% loss per year. It has been proposed that ridge augmentation procedures may reduce the expected ridge reduction after tooth loss. Ridge augmentation procedures may require the use of bone grafts and non-resorbable or non-resorbable barrier membranes. The use of non-resorbable barrier membranes for ridge augmentation has the clinical disadvantage of needing a second procedure for its removal during the healing phase. Osteogen® plug (OPP) consists of a non-ceramic bone graft incorporated in type I bovine Achilles tendon collagen. OPP was first developed to serve as a one-step grafting solution for ridge preservation without the need for a barrier membrane

Detailed description: There will be two(2) groups of standardized treatment (tooth extractions will not take place for research purposes. The Periodontal clinic receives referred tooth extraction indications for treatment as part of the patient's overall treatment plan) evaluated for this study. Subjects will be randomized to either treatment a) standard of care treatment for tooth extraction and ridge augmentation procedures with Cytoplast GRB, or b) standard of the care treatment protocol and ridge augmentation procedures with Osteogen.

Each individual extraction site of the enrolled subject will be randomly assigned to Group A and/or Group B for the ridge augmentation procedure. It is possible for a subject to be randomized to both treatment groups. Randomization is like a "coin toss" prior to the initiation of the surgical procedure. The "coin toss" will be to define the procedure to be conducted for the smallest tooth number first. A computer-generated randomization assignment has been populated for the ridge augmentation assignments. The surgical procedure will be conducted following standard procedures for tooth exodontia and ridge preservation.The selected individual sites will be subjected to the standard of care extraction protocol and then randomized to one of two(2) ridge augmentation procedures. Intra-oral photographs will be made at the same optic focal distance using a ruler which will be used to evaluate areas where the membrane is still exposed and not epithelized. At 20 weeks postoperatively, each study subject will return for implant placement in the ridge preservation area. Excess tissue will be collected if the subject has a standard of care implant-related procedure where tissue could need to be removed for implant placement purposes. For example, if a patient undergoes a tooth extraction, ridge augmentation, and implant placement then any portion of the excised tooth and connective tissue will be kept for later analyses of histology discovery. No additional tissue will be collected for research purposes. There will be one screening visit, a treatment visit, and 7 post-operative follow-up visits at 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 20 weeks. Subjects will visit the clinic a total of eight (9) times. Of the 9 visits, 1 visit is standard of care, 3 visits are a combined standard of care and research procedure visits and 5 are strictly for research purposes. The nonabsorbable membranes in the control will be removed after 4-6 weeks in a most atraumatic manner with the help of a tweezer without disturbing the underlying new connective tissue formation. As there is no need for removal of the absorbable membrane in the experimental group.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* UT Clinic Participates

  * Participates that live within 100 miles of UTHSC.
  * Participates at least 12 years of age. If participants are 13-14 years of age, the premolars and molars will be included in this study. #2-15 \& #18-31.
  * Participates willing to cooperate with the post-operative instructions;
  * Participates with 2 or more (multiples of 2) teeth needing Maxillary/mandibular and anterior/posterior teeth extractions without restrictions due to the percentage of surface area after the extraction and not interfering with the tooth's alveolar soft tissue exposed surface area.
  * Participates with the availability of returning for 8 visits for data collection.
  * Participants are willing to cooperate with answering the VAS and taking standardized photographs.
  * Participants are physically able to tolerate surgical procedures based on current medical history.
  * Participates able to provide voluntary consent; read and understand English

Exclusion Criteria:

* Participates with Diabetes
* History of use of bisphosphonates
* Current smoker
* If the participant is 12-13 years of age, the tooth/teeth to be removed will not be a primary tooth due to the permanent teeth developing underneath the primary teeth.
* Pregnant and lactating women

Primary outcomes:
measure: Histological Bone Formation Changes
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Histological Bone Formation Changes
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Histological Bone Formation Changes
timeFrame: 20 weeks
measure: Clinical Dimensional Changes
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Clinical Dimensional Changes
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Clinical Dimensional Changes
timeFrame: 20 weeks
measure: Evaluate Patient Pain
timeFrame: 20 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Memphis
country: United States
facility: University of Tennessee Health Science Center
state: Tennessee
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Tennessee
name: Cimara F Ferreira, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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