Comparison Between Two Different High Power Ablative Lasers in the Treatment of Oral Leukoplakia

NCT ID: NCT03233165

Last Updated: 2017-07-28

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

54 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-02-20

Study Completion Date

2017-03-20

Brief Summary

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Oral leukoplakia is a precancerous lesion with relatively high malignant transformation potential. They are often treated by wide surgical excisions or conservative retinoids therapy. The use of high power ablative lasers has been proposed as an effective way of treating these lesions safely. The aim of this study was to evaluate efficiency Er:YAG and Er,Cr:YSGG laser, in the treatment of oral leukoplakia.

Detailed Description

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The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of two high-power ablative lasers in the treatment of oral leukoplakia. Furthermore, the purpose was to compare reciprocally and evaluate the subjective and objective postoperative parameters for two different tested ablative lasers, Er: YAG and Er, Cr: YSGG.

All the patients were referred to the Department of Oral Medicine or Oral Surgery where a biopsy and measuring the size of lesion that meet the criteria of the histopathological diagnosis of leukoplakia was performed. Patients who met the conditions of pathohistological diagnosis of leukoplakia and clinical criteria for diagnosis of non-homogeneous leukoplakia, were included in the research.

The patients were randomly allocated into one of the two test groups. In the first group of patients leukoplakia lesion were removed using high-power ablative laser Er: YAG and to those in the second group using high power ablative Er, Cr: YSGG laser.

The patients were monitored one year and six months after treatment to evaluate subjective and objective parameters focused on life quality after treatment and in case of eventual relapse. Criteria of effectiveness for lasers were appearance of relaps in one year and six months following.

Conditions

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Leukoplakic Lesions

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Patients with diagnosed leukoplakia 1

Patients who meet the conditions of pathohistological diagnosis of leukoplakia and clinical criteria for diagnosis of non-homogeneous leukoplakia.

Intervention using Er:YAG laser

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Er:YAG laser

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Ablation of the lesions Device: Er:YAG laser (LightWalker AT, Fotona, Slovenia, 2013) with a non-contact X-Runner digitally controled hand-piece.

Settings for the Er:YAG laser were as follows: pulse mode was Quantum Square Pulse (QSP), pulse energy of 120mJ, frequency of 20Hz and water sprey level was set to10ml per minute.

Patients with diagnosed leukoplakia 2

Patients who meet the conditions of pathohistological diagnosis of leukoplakia and clinical criteria for diagnosis of non-homogeneous leukoplakia.

Intervention using Er,Cr:YSGG laser

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Er,Cr:YSGG laser

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Ablation of the lesions Device: Er,Cr:YSGG laser(WaterLase iPlus, Biolase LTD, USA) using contact mode. Settings were subsequent: power 50W, frequency 50Hz and concentration ratio of air and water was 2:4.

Interventions

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Er:YAG laser

Ablation of the lesions Device: Er:YAG laser (LightWalker AT, Fotona, Slovenia, 2013) with a non-contact X-Runner digitally controled hand-piece.

Settings for the Er:YAG laser were as follows: pulse mode was Quantum Square Pulse (QSP), pulse energy of 120mJ, frequency of 20Hz and water sprey level was set to10ml per minute.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Er,Cr:YSGG laser

Ablation of the lesions Device: Er,Cr:YSGG laser(WaterLase iPlus, Biolase LTD, USA) using contact mode. Settings were subsequent: power 50W, frequency 50Hz and concentration ratio of air and water was 2:4.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* based clinically diagnosed non homogeneous leukoplakia

Exclusion Criteria

* immunocompromised patients
* HIV positive patients
* patients on suppressive therapy
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Zagreb

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Dragana Gabrić

Clinical Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Dr. Dragana Gabrić

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

University of Zagreb

References

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Other Identifiers

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05-PA-26-6/2015

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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