EARLY DENTAL LOSS IN SJOGRENS-SYNDROME - HISTOLOGIC CORRELATES

Authors
BAUDETPOMMEL M ALBUISSON E KEMENY JL FALVARD F RISTORI JM FRAYSSE MP SAUVEZIE B BOMBARDIERI S BENCIVELLI W DEVITA S SCIUTO M MOUTSOPOULOS HM DROSOS AA SKOPOULI FN BALESTRIERI G BRAGA S BERNSTEIN RM HAY EM BJERRUM KB PRAUSE JU SCHIODT M COLL J EHRENFELD M SHOENFELD Y HATRON PY JANIN A ISENBERG DA SNAITH ML MAINI RN VENABLES PJW KALDEN JR KATER L KONTTINEN YT MADDISSON PJ MANTHORPE R MEYER O WATTIAUX MJ OSTUNI P TODESCO S PENNEC Y YOUINOU P RICHARDS A SCULLY C SAUVEZIE B SMOLEN JS TISHLER M VALESINI G RICHARDS A
Citation
M. Baudetpommel et al., EARLY DENTAL LOSS IN SJOGRENS-SYNDROME - HISTOLOGIC CORRELATES, Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology, 78(2), 1994, pp. 181-186
Citations number
43
Categorie Soggetti
Pathology,Surgery,"Dentistry,Oral Surgery & Medicine
Journal title
Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304220
Volume
78
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
181 - 186
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4220(1994)78:2<181:EDLIS->2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Early dental loss is a well-known complication of Sjogren's syndrome. Forty percent (n = 16) of 39 consecutive patients with the syndrome ha d early dental loss. Dental loss correlated positively with histologic grading at lip biopsy. There was no significant correlation with any other feature of Sjogren's syndrome, including saliva flow. In 11 part ially edentulous or completely edentulous patients, dental loss occurr ed 9 years on average before the first symptom of xerostomia. Early de ntal loss may reflect a silent involvement of the salivary glands and suggests that changes in saliva biochemistry occur long before xerosto mia.