Oral and dental manifestations of young asthmatics related to medication, severity and duration of condition

Abstract

It was found that asthma, through its disease status and its pharmacotherapy, carries some risk factors including decreased salivary flow rate and pH for caries development. It was also demonstrated that the duration of medication and illness had significant influences on the risk of caries in asthmatics.

Oral health in preschool children with asthma

“…The difference between the two age groups, 3 and 6 years of age, might be due to the fact that the group of asthmatic 3-year-olds is more homogeneous in terms of the onset of the disease than the group of asthmatic 6-year-olds. One of the strengths of the present study is that, unlike most other studies [7][8][9]11] conducted in pre-school children with asthma, this study comprised all the children registered as having asthma within the selected geographical areas and the children were all 3 or 6 years of age at time for examination. One limitation, however, is that all participating children came from geographical areas with a high socio-economic profile and thereby had a lower caries prevalence than a random sample of pre-school children from the Municipality of Jönköping [23].…”

“…Some authors have reported a correlation between childhood asthma and dental caries in pre-school children [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13], while others have found no such connection [14][15][16]. Eloot et al [17] found that neither the length of the disease period in 3 to17-year-old children with asthma nor the medication or the severity of the asthma disease had a significant effect on the risk of developing caries or gingivitis.…”

Dental Health in Asthmatics Treated With Inhaled Corticosteroids and Long-Asting Sympathicomimetics

“…Some of the asthmatic patients has less saliva because of mouth breathing and nasal polyps. [3,8,12,17,19] Results from dental status investigation reveal highly injured dental tissues in asthmatic patients. Probably these results can be explained with the prolonged use of drugs which affect negatively oral cavity environment and its protective functions and favour the process of enamel demineralization.…”

Asthma and Oral Health

“…13 Ersin ve ark. 22 astım ilaçlarının tükürük pH'ını çürüklerin gelişimi için uygun seviyeye getirdiğini ve tükürük akış hızını azalttığını saptamışlardır. Reddy ve ark.…”