Overview
To date, there are no methods for assessing the risk of oral developmental defects that could predict long-term adverse effects in childhood cancer survivors. Having such a method at our disposal would enable us to better assess the risk to develop those defects and will help us provide new prevention and treatment strategies to ensure a healthy oral development.
The aims of this study are :
- Assess the caries risk in childhood cancer survivors compared with a control group.
- Assess the dental development defects risk in childhood cancer survivors compared with a control group.
Description
This will be an international study comparing the Childhood Cancer Survivors (CCS) and a control group.
A questionnaire will be provided to the patients to gather information. A standard of care dental examination will then take place in a dental office in the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc. We also collect medical data to complete the files.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- age below 10 at cancer diagnosis (for the CCS group).
- Chemotherapy must have been used to treat the patient (For the CCS group).
- The patient is 12 years old or older at the time of the follow-up appointment of the present study
Exclusion Criteria:
- A patient who was diagnosed and treated after 10 years old.
- Patient below 12 years old at time of study recruitment
- Patients with syndrome or diseases that involve teeth impairment*
- Pregnant patient
- Refusal or inaptitude to undergo dental and radiographic examination