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Utility of Pharmacogenomic Testing and Postoperative Dental Pain Outcomes

Utility of Pharmacogenomic Testing and Postoperative Dental Pain Outcomes

Status
Terminated
Phases
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT02932579
Enrollment
59
Registered
2016-10-13
Start date
2017-07-01
Completion date
2021-01-13
Last updated
2022-03-16

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Conditions

Pain

Brief summary

Opioid analgesics are the most common postoperative pain medications used among dentists in the United States.Although these medications are highly effective in the postoperative dental pain management, not all patients optimally benefit from this therapy. Many suffer adverse consequences such as nausea, emesis, and psychomotor impairment, and there is a high prevalence of opioid prescription misuse among substance abusers within the dental patient population. The use of non-opioid analgesics including ibuprofen and acetaminophen in the management of postoperative dental pain has demonstrated equivalent or superior analgesic effects compared to opioid analgesic therapies, typically with significantly less adverse effects.However, despite these results, dentists have encountered a high variability in the success of non-opioid analgesic responses among the postoperative dental pain population.Thus, new strategies for earlier recognition of analgesic responses for pain medications is fundamental in the field of dentistry. Therefore, this study will evaluate the clinical utility of pharmacogenomic testing in acute postoperative dental pain management among healthy adults who undergo extraction of impacted mandibular third molar.

Detailed description

To date, the use of pharmacogenomic methods in medicine has broadened our understanding of the important role of genes and different phenotypes/genotypes that make each individual unique in pain responses, including drug biotransformation, transportation, and drug-related side effects to name a few.Thus, recognizing the genetic profile of each individual prior to the prescription of pain medication for postoperative dental pain management will be essential to provide a more effective and safer pain therapy.Additionally, we suggest that 80% of the individuals in the general population exhibit a genetic profile that influence a normal pain response to non-opioid pain therapies. Hence we postulate that the integration of a pharmacogenomic testing to guide the prescription of ibuprofen and acetaminophen, not only, could lead to improved clinical postoperative dental pain outcomes, but also, significantly reduce opioid analgesics prescriptions by dentists.

Interventions

Saliva collection (5mL)

DRUGIbuprofen

400 mg

DRUGhydroxycontin/acetominophen

hydroxycontin 2.5 mg, acetominophen 325 mg

650 mg

DRUGOxycontin/acetominophen

5mg Oxycontin, 325 mg acetominophen. This will be a rescue medication is the other three pain medications do not work.

Sponsors

University of Rochester
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 35 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Patients who are able to read, comprehend, and sign the consent form, and willing to stay in the study unit for up to 12 hours. * Patients who are reliable, cooperative, and of adequate intelligence to record the requested information on the questionnaire form(s). * Women of childbearing potential who are not pregnant, as assessed by a urine pregnancy quick test on the day of the procedure, prior to surgery. Women must be using a method of birth control deemed acceptable by the investigator and continue to use this method during the duration of dosing with study medication * Patient who develop sufficient levels of pain (rated at 50mm or more out of a 100 mm) on the DPIS within 6 hours post-surgical extraction. * Patients who agree not to take analgesics other than protocol-defined rescue analgesics during the post-operative treatment period of 6 hours. * Patients who agree to refrain from alcohol and sedative consumption during the post-operative period of 6 hours. * Patients scheduled to undergo surgical removal of 3 or more impacted third molars, at least 1 of which must be a bony mandibular impaction. In addition, the sum of the dental impaction scores must be 9 or above, carried out by investigator.

Exclusion criteria

Subjects with: * Known opioids and NSAIDs allergies (or induced asthmatic attacks) * Known history of opioid abuse * Recent history of gastrointestinal ulceration * History of aspirin intolerance/cross-sensitivity * Recent myocardial disease * Uncontrolled hypertension * Patients receiving anticoagulation therapy * Uncontrolled diabetes * Pregnant women * Immunosuppression * Recent history of opioid or NSAID therapies * Subjects who do not achieve a qualifying baseline pain threshold of 50mm out of 100mm on the visual analog DIPS within 6 hours of completion of surgery

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Mean Pain Score6 hoursTo compare the pain control outcomes between a single-dose of pharmacogenomics- testing-driven-prescription of ibuprofen (400mg) or acetaminophen (650mg) with those of single-dose (standard of care) of combined formulation of hydrocodone and acetaminophen (5/650mg). A visual analog scale for dental pain will be used. Scale ranges from 0-100 with 100 worse pain.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Number of Participants That Did Not Need Opioid Analgesic Prescriptions6 hoursTo determine the number of patients who did not require prescribed opioid analgesic'rescue' after pharmacogenomic-guided acute postoperative dental pain management versus those taking the non-guided combined formulation of hydrocodone and acetaminophen.

Countries

United States

Participant flow

Participants by arm

ArmCount
Standard of Care
Individuals within this group will receive standard of care for postoperative dental pain secondary to extraction of impacted mandibular third molar(s) Pharmacogenomic Testing: Saliva collection (5mL)
33
Pharmacogenomic Group
Individuals within this group will receive pharmacogenomic testing guided prescription of pain medication for postoperative dental pain secondary to extraction of impacted mandibular third molar(s) Pharmacogenomic Testing: Saliva collection (5mL) Ibuprofen: 400 mg hydroxycontin/acetominophen: hydroxycontin 2.5 mg, acetominophen 325 mg acetominophen: 650 mg Oxycontin/acetominophen: 5mg Oxycontin, 325 mg acetominophen. This will be a rescue medication is the other three pain medications do not work.
26
Total59

Withdrawals & dropouts

PeriodReasonFG000FG001
Overall StudyWithdrawal by Subject41

Baseline characteristics

CharacteristicStandard of CareTotalPharmacogenomic Group
Age, Continuous23.0 years
STANDARD_DEVIATION 4.2
24.0 years
STANDARD_DEVIATION 4
24.9 years
STANDARD_DEVIATION 4.6
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Hispanic or Latino
7 Participants13 Participants6 Participants
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Not Hispanic or Latino
25 Participants45 Participants20 Participants
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Unknown or Not Reported
1 Participants1 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
American Indian or Alaska Native
0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Asian
4 Participants7 Participants3 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Black or African American
6 Participants16 Participants10 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
More than one race
2 Participants2 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Unknown or Not Reported
3 Participants4 Participants1 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
White
18 Participants30 Participants12 Participants
Region of Enrollment
United States
33 participants59 participants26 participants
Sex: Female, Male
Female
20 Participants36 Participants16 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Male
13 Participants23 Participants10 Participants

Adverse events

Event typeEG000
affected / at risk
EG001
affected / at risk
deaths
Total, all-cause mortality
0 / 290 / 25
other
Total, other adverse events
10 / 297 / 25
serious
Total, serious adverse events
0 / 290 / 25

Outcome results

Primary

Mean Pain Score

To compare the pain control outcomes between a single-dose of pharmacogenomics- testing-driven-prescription of ibuprofen (400mg) or acetaminophen (650mg) with those of single-dose (standard of care) of combined formulation of hydrocodone and acetaminophen (5/650mg). A visual analog scale for dental pain will be used. Scale ranges from 0-100 with 100 worse pain.

Time frame: 6 hours

Population: subjects completed the study

ArmMeasureValue (MEAN)Dispersion
Standard of CareMean Pain Score41.9 units on a scaleStandard Deviation 24.8
Pharmacogenomic GroupMean Pain Score28.9 units on a scaleStandard Deviation 19.4
p-value: 0.098t-test, 2 sided
Secondary

Number of Participants That Did Not Need Opioid Analgesic Prescriptions

To determine the number of patients who did not require prescribed opioid analgesic'rescue' after pharmacogenomic-guided acute postoperative dental pain management versus those taking the non-guided combined formulation of hydrocodone and acetaminophen.

Time frame: 6 hours

Population: subjects completed the study

ArmMeasureValue (COUNT_OF_PARTICIPANTS)
Standard of CareNumber of Participants That Did Not Need Opioid Analgesic Prescriptions7 Participants
Pharmacogenomic GroupNumber of Participants That Did Not Need Opioid Analgesic Prescriptions4 Participants
p-value: 0.7495% CI: [0.45, 4.21]Fisher Exact

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026