Important outcomes for young people/parents for tooth transplantation
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Important outcomes for young people having tooth autotransplantation and their parents.
IRAS ID
277086
Contact name
Sophy Barber
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Leeds
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 0 days
Research summary
Tooth autotransplantation is the surgical movement of a tooth from one location in the oral cavity to another location within the same patient. It can be used for tooth replacement where one or more teeth are missing, for example if a tooth has been lost through trauma, decay or a fault in tooth development. Tooth autotransplantation has a number of benefits for growing children, but success depends on a number of patient and procedural factors. To date, only retrospective analysis of cases has been used to evaluate this treatment.
We propose to develop and test a Minimum Clinical Dataset (MCD) for autotransplantation of developing teeth. MCDs are defined as ‘an essential or pertinent set of data elements related to a single clinical condition, procedure, specialty, or healthcare process’, which are applied in practice as the minimum clinical information that should be collected from each patient as part of routine clinical care. MCDs allow collection of agreed standardised data for every patient to promote greater data synthesis to support evaluation of process and outcome.
To ensure the patient perspective is included, we would like to first find out what is important to young people undergoing tooth autotransplantation, and their parents.
Potentially important outcomes have been identified using mixed methods (systematic literature review; stakeholders input; review of current datasets). The list of potentially important outcomes that has been generated will be discussed with the young people and their parents in either a focus group or individual interviews, depending on their preference. The purpose of this is to explain what the outcomes are and answer any questions. After this discussion, the participants will be asked to complete a questionnaire to rate how important they think each outcome is.
REC name
London - Hampstead Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
22/PR/0327
Date of REC Opinion
30 Mar 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion