What is it about?
The aim of this exploratory study was to evaluate the effects of hydrogel patch wound dressing on healing time and pain level of denture-related lesions of the oral mucosa in edentulous individuals. The results of this exploratory study suggest that application of hydrogel patches may represent a novel, effective treatment for accelerating the healing process and pain reduction in mucosal lesions associated with complete dentures also in people with type 2 diabetes.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
The hydrogel patch lesions attained significant greater reductions in their extent from baseline to days 1 and 7 compared to lesions that received usual care. The participants reported significant improvement in pain level 1 day following treatment initiation for 30% of the control lesions, compared to 65% of the lesions treated with the hydrogel patch.
Perspectives
Future studies are needed to confirm these preliminary findings. Such studies should be conducted among many more in- dividuals, enabling subgroup analyses, for instance between groups with different levels of glycemic control and other potential confounders, such as tobacco-smoking habits. Fur- thermore, future studies assessing the efficacy of an unmed- icated patch as a control could explore whether the medica- tion containing PerioPatch⃝R provides better relief than an un- medicated bandage whose effect would exclusively consist of mechanical protection of the ulcer. Larger studies should also investigate whether the performance of medicated and unmedicated patches are indeed superior to the current standard care that does not involve the use of any patch.
Dr Anca Jivanescu
Anca Jivanescu
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Effects of a Hydrogel Patch on Denture-Related Traumatic Ulcers; an Exploratory Study, Journal of Prosthodontics, July 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jopr.12186.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
