Vallecular Bolus Aggregation During Swallowing for Implant Overdenture.

NCT ID: NCT06958055

Last Updated: 2025-05-06

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 16 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-01-26
• Study Completion Date: 2025-03-27

Brief Summary

evaluate the effect of implant retained mandibular overdenture on vallecular bolus aggregation during chewing and subsequent swallowing of solid food consistency.

Detailed Description

Healthy edentulous subjects seeking prosthetic treatment at the prosthodontics department, Faculty of Dentistry, Mansoura University will be eligible for this study. The inclusion criteria will be: age >60 year; Class I maxilla-mandibular relation; available inter-arch space; and adequate bone quality and quality in the mandibular anterior alveolar ridge (inter-foraminal area). Subjects with physical or cognitive limitations, neurodegenerative disorders that could influence their swallowing function, parafunctional habits, smokers, signs or symptoms of temporomandibular disorders, osteoporosis, uncontrolled systemic diseases, previously undergone radiotherapy or laryngeal surgery will be excluded from the study.

Sample size estimation is based on a previous study evaluated the oral and pharyngeal phases of swallowing by videofluroscopy and found significant differences between groups. We determined that 16 participants will be required for the detection of significant differences with effect size of 0.78, 90% power, and 5% error probability. Ethical agreement will be taken from ethical committee of the faculty of dentistry and written consent will be gotten from all the participants after illustrating in detail the whole research protocol.

Prosthetic and surgical procedures:

For each patient, new conventional complete denture will be constructed with optimal denture extension and lingualized balanced occlusal scheme. The new prosthesis will be inserted intraorally and adjusted for occlusal interferences. Subsequently, two dental implants will be placed in the canines region according to guided surgery protocol and two-stage approach. After osseointegration, locator attachments will be screwed to the dental implants to convert the conventional mandibular denture to mandibular implant retained overdenture. The mandibular implant overdentutre will be inserted and occlusal adjustment will be done and follow up visits will be scheduled.

II- Evaluation method:

Each patient will be subjected to videofluoroscopic imaging at 3 different oral conditions; without denture, after 3 months of complete dentures insertion, and after 3 months of mandibular implant overdenture insertion.

Videofluroscopic (VF) assessment:

All participants will be evaluated by using videofluoroscopic evaluation of bolus movement. Each patient will be asked to chew ¼ of cookie (coated with pudding and barium powder) and swallow the bolus once they will be ready. The videofluoroscopic recordings will be transferred to the computer for later data analysis. EO program (Version 1.36) was used to analyze the videofluoroscopic recordings by placing numbers (1/100 second) on the video frame for later frame-by-frame data analysis.

The following parameters will be measured:

• Bolus location at swallow onset (BLSO).
• Swallow reaction time (SRT), that is, the interval, from bolus passing the mandible (BPM) to hyoid burst (HYB) onset.
• Vallecular aggregation time (VAT), that is, the interval, from BPM to end of aggregation (EOA), with EOA defined as the first frame showing the leading edge of the bolus moving below the level of the pit of the vallecular space.
• The EOA-to-HYB interval.

Conditions

Prosthesis Durability

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

group I : complete edentulous patients

videofluroscopy for completely edentulous patients

Group Type: PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

videofluroscopy evaluation of swallowing function

Intervention Type: RADIATION

Videofluoroscopy swallowing evaluation was done using solid food bolus at three different oral conditions: Without dentures (WOD), with the conventional complete denture (CDs) and with mandibular implant retained overdenture (IODs).

group II: Conventional complete denture

complete denture construction for edentulous patient and videofluroscopy evaluation

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

videofluroscopy evaluation of swallowing function

Intervention Type: RADIATION

Videofluoroscopy swallowing evaluation was done using solid food bolus at three different oral conditions: Without dentures (WOD), with the conventional complete denture (CDs) and with mandibular implant retained overdenture (IODs).

group III: Implant overdentutres

construction of implant overdenture and videofluroscopy evaluation

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

videofluroscopy evaluation of swallowing function

Intervention Type: RADIATION

Videofluoroscopy swallowing evaluation was done using solid food bolus at three different oral conditions: Without dentures (WOD), with the conventional complete denture (CDs) and with mandibular implant retained overdenture (IODs).

Interventions

videofluroscopy evaluation of swallowing function

Videofluoroscopy swallowing evaluation was done using solid food bolus at three different oral conditions: Without dentures (WOD), with the conventional complete denture (CDs) and with mandibular implant retained overdenture (IODs).

Intervention Type: RADIATION

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• age >60 year.
• Class I maxilla-mandibular relation;
• Available inter-arch space.
• adequate bone quality and quality in the mandibular anterior alveolar ridge (inter-foraminal area).

Exclusion Criteria

• Subjects with physical or cognitive limitations,
• Neurodegenerative disorders that could influence their swallowing function,
• Parafunctional habits,
• Smokers,
• Signs or symptoms of temporomandibular disorders,
• Osteoporosis,
• Uncontrolled systemic diseases,
• Previously undergone radiotherapy or laryngeal surgery

• Minimum Eligible Age: 60 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 75 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Mansoura University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

abdallah M Ibrahim, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Mansoura university, Faculty of dentistry, prosthodontics department

Locations

faculty of dentistry, mansoura university Mansoura, Egypt,

Al Mansurah, , Egypt

Countries

Egypt

References

Ibrahim AM, Elgamal M, Abdel-Khalek EA. Hyoid displacement during swallowing function for completely edentulous subjects rehabilitated with mandibular implant retained overdenture. BMC Oral Health. 2024 Aug 8;24(1):914. doi: 10.1186/s12903-024-04616-9.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 39118020 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

A0102025RP

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id