Prognosis of Dental Implants in Patients With Primary Sjögren's Syndrome

NCT ID: NCT04960605

Last Updated: 2023-12-01

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

48 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-01-01

Study Completion Date

2023-10-27

Brief Summary

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Primary Sjögren's Syndrome (PSS) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease primarily involving the salivary and lacrimal glands. Few data exist regarding survival and success rate of dental implants in patients with PSS. Although a previous study suggest lower success rate for dental implants we hypothesize that dental implants have similar survival and success rate in PSS as healthy controls.

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the long-term survival and success rate of dental implants in patients with PSS compared to the healthy controls.

Detailed Description

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Sjögren's syndrome (SS) affects about 5% of population worldwide. Patients with Primary Sjögren's Syndrome (PSS) have dry mouth, oral mucosal problems, increased dental decay and problems wearing dentures. A retrospective case series indicated that implant survival rate may be reduced among SS patients. Furthermore, there is lack of scientific evidence to support success or failure of dental implants in SS-patients.

The null hypothesis is that the outcome of implant treatment after 5 years is similar in patients with primary Sjögren's Syndrome (pSS) compared to matched controls.

The participants with PSS fulfilled the Copenhagen Criteria and/or the US-EU criteria for PSS, miss at least one tooth and have sufficient bone volume for a single implant insertion without bone augmentation.

Recruitment of PSS patients was done via own existing databases on PSS patients as well as repeated national announcements in the Danish Dental Journal.

We included 24 consecutive participants with PSS. For each participant with PSS (test group), an age, gender, and tooth-type matched healthy participant (control group) was enrolled (n=24).

The surgical part of the implant treatment was carried out by two experienced maxillofacial surgeons. Straumann implants (Straumann Bone level Roxolid®) with a hydrophilic sandblasted, acid etched implant surface (SLActive) was used for all participants. If more than one implant was placed, the study implant was determined according to a randomization scheme.

The inserted implants were allowed to heal for 3 months before the prosthetic part, which was carried out by two experienced prostodontists. The same prosthetic material and method was applied for all participants.

The participants were recalled for baseline (2 months after prosthetic loading) and 1, 3 and 5 years examination, where the biological (marginal bone level, inflammation etc.), technical (fractures, loosening's etc.), esthetic (Copenhagen Index score) and patient-reported (Oral Health Impact Profile questionnaire/OHIP-49) assessments were performed.

Conditions

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Dental Implant Primary Sjögren Syndrome

Keywords

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Dental Implants Primary Sjögren syndrom Biological outcome Technical outcome Aesthetic outcome Patient-reported outcome

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Prospective study
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors
The statistical analyses will be masked.

Study Groups

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Test group

Patients with Primary Sjögren Syndrom

Group Type OTHER

Dental implants

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Treatment of the toothless regions with dental implants

Control group

Patients with Primary Sjögren Syndrom, matched to the test group

Group Type OTHER

Dental implants

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Treatment of the toothless regions with dental implants

Interventions

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Dental implants

Treatment of the toothless regions with dental implants

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* \- Age 20-70 years
* Indication of tooth replacement with implant-supported fixed dentures
* The test group should be without any potentially associated disease
* pSS must be diagnosed according to the American-European Consensus Group criteria (Vitali et al., 2002):

1. The presence of any 4 of the following 6 items, as long as either item IV (Histopathology) or VI (Serology) is positive
2. The presence of any 3 of the 4 objective criteria items (that is, items III, IV, V, VI)

The items:

I. Ocular symptoms: a positive response to at least one of the following questions:

1. Have you had daily, persistent, troublesome dry eyes for more than 3 months?
2. Do you have a recurrent sensation of sand or gravel in the eyes?
3. Do you use tear substitutes more than 3 times a day?

II. Oral symptoms: a positive response to at least one of the following questions:

1. Have you had a daily feeling of dry mouth for more than 3 months?
2. Have you had recurrently or persistently swollen salivary glands as an adult?
3. Do you frequently drink liquids to aid in swallowing dry food?

III. Ocular signs --that is, objective evidence of ocular involvement defined as a positive result for at least one of the following two tests:

1. Schirmer's I test, performed without anaesthesia (\<5 mm in 5 minutes)
2. Rose bengal score or other ocular dye score (\>4 according to van Bijsterveld's scoring system) IV. Histopathology: In minor salivary glands (obtained through normal-appearing mucosa) focal lymphocytic sialoadenitis, evaluated by an expert histopathologist, with a focus score \>1, defined as a number of lymphocytic foci (which are adjacent to normal-appearing mucous acini and contain more than 50 lymphocytes) per 4 mm2 of glandular tissue

V. Salivary gland involvement: objective evidence of salivary gland involvement defined by a positive result for at least one of the following diagnostic tests:

1. Unstimulated whole salivary flow (\<1.5 ml in 15 minutes)
2. Parotid sialography showing the presence of diffuse sialectasias (punctate, cavitary or destructive pattern), without evidence of obstruction in the major ducts
3. Salivary scintigraphy showing delayed uptake, reduced concentration and/or delayed excretion of tracer

VI. Autoantibodies: presence in the serum of the following autoantibodies:

1\. Antibodies to Ro(SSA) or La(SSB) antigens, or both

* The control group should match the test group according to the age, sex and treatment region and fulfill the following:
* Normal salivary flow: unstimulated \> 1.5 ml in 15 min, stimulated \> 3.5 ml in 5 min
* No ocular or oral symptoms
* Submission of written informed consent form

Exclusion Criteria

* Persons with:

1. secundary Sjögren Syndrom (sSS)
2. severe systemic disease including severe bleeding disorder and/or conditions which put the patient at risk and/or prohibit compliance as stated by Hwang and Wang, 2006; and Hwang and Wang, 2007):
3. previous or present bisphosphonate, Denosumab or anti-angiogenetic chemotherapeutic drugs
4. poor bone quality according to Lekholm U \& Zarb GA (1985) or diagnosed osteoporosis
5. Heavy smokers, eqv. to 20+ cigarettes/day
6. Noncompliance
Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

70 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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ITI Foundation

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

Gigtforeningen

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Rigshospitalet, Denmark

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Copenhagen

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Mandana Hosseini

Guest researcher

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Mandana Hosseini

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Copenhagen

References

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Isidor F, Brondum K, Hansen HJ, Jensen J, Sindet-Pedersen S. Outcome of treatment with implant-retained dental prostheses in patients with Sjogren syndrome. Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants. 1999 Sep-Oct;14(5):736-43.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 10531746 (View on PubMed)

Pedersen AM, Bardow A, Nauntofte B. Salivary changes and dental caries as potential oral markers of autoimmune salivary gland dysfunction in primary Sjogren's syndrome. BMC Clin Pathol. 2005 Mar 1;5(1):4. doi: 10.1186/1472-6890-5-4.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 15740617 (View on PubMed)

Hosseini M, Gotfredsen K. A feasible, aesthetic quality evaluation of implant-supported single crowns: an analysis of validity and reliability. Clin Oral Implants Res. 2012 Apr;23(4):453-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0501.2011.02162.x. Epub 2011 Mar 28.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 21443589 (View on PubMed)

Shiboski SC, Shiboski CH, Criswell L, Baer A, Challacombe S, Lanfranchi H, Schiodt M, Umehara H, Vivino F, Zhao Y, Dong Y, Greenspan D, Heidenreich AM, Helin P, Kirkham B, Kitagawa K, Larkin G, Li M, Lietman T, Lindegaard J, McNamara N, Sack K, Shirlaw P, Sugai S, Vollenweider C, Whitcher J, Wu A, Zhang S, Zhang W, Greenspan J, Daniels T; Sjogren's International Collaborative Clinical Alliance (SICCA) Research Groups. American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for Sjogren's syndrome: a data-driven, expert consensus approach in the Sjogren's International Collaborative Clinical Alliance cohort. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2012 Apr;64(4):475-87. doi: 10.1002/acr.21591.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 22563590 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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1036_2015

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id