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The Impact of Material on Microbiota in Association With Tongue and Lip Piercing

NCT01039259 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 170

Last updated 2009-12-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Biofilms on oral piercings may serve as a bacterial reservoir and lead to systemic bacteraemia or local transmission of periopathogenic microbiota.

The investigators hypothesize that there are microbiological differences in bacterial samples collected from tongue /or lip piercings made of different materials. The investigators also hypothesize that the piercings carry the same characteristic bacteria as found in the piercing channels and that independently the biofilm on the tongue/adjacent teeth is similar to the other study locations.

85 subjects with tongue and 85 subjects with lip piercing will participate. Periodontal clinical parameters, traumata of hard tissues, and characteristics of the stud are evaluated. Sterile piercings of four different materials will be randomly allocated to the study subjects. After two weeks, microbiologic samples are collected and are processed by checkerboard DNA-DNA hybridization methods.

Conditions

  • Bacteremia

Interventions

DEVICE

piercings of four different materials

randomly assigned sterile piercings are inserted for two weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Austrian Society of Periodontology

    collaborator OTHER

  • Medical University Innsbruck

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ines Kapferer, Dr. · Innsbruck Medical University

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-08-31
Primary Completion
2009-02-28
Completion
2009-02-28

Countries

  • Austria

Study Locations

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