BACKGROUND: Eosinophilic granuloma (EG), one of the three clinical forms of Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), is a benign inflammatory reaction to an unknown etiologic agent. It most commonly occurs in children and young adults. The most frequently involved bones are the skull, the ribs and the femurs. Alongside the cranium, the maxilla and mandible can also be affected. CASE DETAILS: Herein, we report a case of eosinophilic granuloma in a ten years old boy involving posterior quadrants upper and lower jaws as a destructive lesion involving gingiva, periodontium and alveolar bone. Involvement of other bones is ruled out by nucleotide imaging study. CONCLUSION: EG should be considered as a differential diagnosis whenever there is a bony destructive lesion involving alveolar bone of the Jaws. Early diagnosis and surgical intervention will resolve the lesion.

was to assess whether non-surgical periodontal treatment has an effect on prostate symptom score and serum PSA and levels of proinflammatory cytokines, viz., IL-1β and CRP in men with elevated serum PSA and chronic periodontitis.

Introduction: Although the fact that the association of the periodontitis and the diabetes mellitus is well accepted, the literature has inconsistent findings regarding this connection. The motive in conducting this systematic review was to define whether poorly controlled diabetes was linked to the development or progression of periodontitis. Materials and Methods: Databases from PubMed, Scopus, and Embase were searched electronically. All included articles’ reference lists were manually searched. Google Scholar was used to research gray literature. For this review, longitudinal studies (prospective) on the association between periodontitis and diabetes were taken into consideration. Studies have to have included at least two parameters of the evolution of health of the periodontium throughout time. The study’s design, as well as unadjusted and adjusted estimates, was recorded. This study calculated the combined impact of diabetes-related hyperglycemia on the start or progression of periodontitis using meta-analysis. To look into possible sources of study heterogeneity, subgroup analyses and meta-regression were used. Results: With 49,262 participants from 13 studies that met the inclusion criteria, 3197 of whom had been diagnosed with diabetes. Diabetes augmented the likelihood of developing or progressing into periodontitis by 86%, according to meta-analyses of adjusted estimates (RR 1.86; 95% CI 1.3-2.8). On the association between periodontitis and diabetes, there is little data, nonetheless. Conclusions: This study provides proof that persons with diabetes have an increased risk of developing periodontitis. Methodological limitations mentioned in this study should be overcome in upcoming prospective longitudinal investigations.

Introduction: Tobacco has been linked multiple times to many health implications. The relationship between periodontitis and tobacco was thoroughly investigated in this systemic review to evaluate if tobacco specifically smoking impacts the progression of periodontal through impairing vascular and immunity mediators processes. Materials and Methods: The manual and electronic literature searches up to 2020 in the databanks of the EMBASE, MEDLINE, PUBMED, and SCOPUS were conducted. The search terms were “periodontitis,” “periodontitis diseases,” “smoking,” “tobacco use,” “tobacco,” and “cigarette, pipe, and cigar.” The types of studies included were restricted to the original studies and human trials. Analyses of subgroups and meta-regression were used to calculate the heterogeneity. Results: 15 papers total were considered in the review, however only 14 of them provided information that could be used in the meta-analysis. Smoking raises the incidence of periodontitis by 85% according to pooled adjusted risk ratios (risk ratio 1.845, CI (95%) =1.5, 2.2). The results of a meta-regression analysis showed that age, follow-up intervals, periodontal disease, the severity of periodontitis, criteria used to determine periodontal status, and loss to follow-up accounted for 54.2%, 10.7%, 13.5%, and 2.1% of the variation in study results. Conclusion: Smoking has an undesirable impact on periodontal incidence and development. Therefore, when taking the history of the patients at the initial visits the information about the habit of smoking has to be thoroughly noted.