A Review of dental health issues in Parkinson`s disease patients

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease. Its prevalence is expected to double in the next 20 years due to the increase in life expectancy. The disease symptoms negatively impact patients' oral and dental health.Dental specialists must be aware of PD clinical manifestations and meet effectively the challenges for office management and homecare.

Oral rehabilitation of a parkinson disease patient: A case report

“…As a consequence, Parkinson's disease patients present difficulties for treatment with removable prosthesis. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][9][10][11][12] Denture problems can influence nutritional intake, dietary enjoyment, self esteem, social interaction and social acceptability as well as causing embarrassment to the individual .As the success of dentures depends, to a large extent on the wearers ability to control them with their orofacial musculature where as muscular incoordination, rigid facial muscles and xerostomia associated with Parkinson's disease patients would jeopardize denture retention, stability along with insertion, removal and cleaning of prostheses.…”

“…All of these problems complicate procedures involved with oral rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson's disease and challenging to the clinician. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Complete denture wearers must learn to control the dentures with their lips, cheeks and tongue if the prostheses are to function successfully. 8 However, not everyone is able to develop this skill, particularly the patients with Parkinson's disease.…”

“…The development of osseointegrated implants has revolutionized the treatment of missing teeth and thereby reduced these problems associated with dentures. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][9][10][11][12] This case report describes the use of dental implants to support the over denture prosthesis in the mandibular arch and flexible removable partial denture in the maxillary arch to replace few missing teeth.…”