Abstract
Background:Asthma is a chronic inflammatory condition affecting the airways leading to spasm and swelling of the airways. The medications taken for the treatment of asthma can result in dental erosion and dentin hypersensitivity.Objectives:The aims of this study were to investigate the severity of dental erosion amongst adult asthmatics according to: gender, type and duration of medication taken and to compare dental erosion and dentin hypersensitivity between asthmatics and non-asthmatics.Subjects and Methods:Comparative, cross-sectional hospital based study among 40 asthmatics (M=15 & F=25) and 40 non-asthmatics (M=18 & F=22) in the age range of 18-60 year selected purposefully from Al-Shaab Teaching Hospital in Khartoum city. The Basic Erosive Wear Index was used for dental erosion assessment. Dentine hypersensitivity was determined by giving ice cold water and rated using the Visual Analogue Scale. Chi-square and Student’s t-test were used for statistical analysis with P value ≤.05.Results:There was an association between severity of dental erosion and presence of asthma (P=0.03), where asthmatics had a higher degree of erosion (moderate and severe) and non-asthmatics a lower degree. No significant association was found between dental erosion and gender, type and duration of medication among asthmatics group. A statistically significant difference was revealed in the degree of dentin hypersensitivity (P=0.00) among asthmatics (35.13%) and non-asthmatics (14.13%).Conclusion:Asthmatic patients had a higher degree of dental erosion and dentin hypersensitivity compared to non-asthmatics. Among asthmatic patients there was no association between severity of dental erosion and gender, type and duration medication was taken for.
Highlights
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory condition affecting the airways leading to spasm and swelling of the airways
Is the exposure of the dentin, which leads to the condition known as dentin hypersensitivity, which is characterized by short, sharp pain arising from exposed dentin in response to stimuli, commonly thermal, evaporative, tactile, osmotic or chemical, which cannot be related to any other form of dental defect or pathology [5]
The study consisted of 40 asthmatics and 40 non- asthmatics with a mean age of 40.1±5.1 year for male and 39.8±4.2 year for female
Summary
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory condition affecting the airways leading to spasm and swelling of the airways. Some studies have shown that the medications taken for the treatment of asthma can result in. Dental erosion is the irreversible loss of tooth surface by chemicals. It can lead to adverse effect such as irreversible loss of tooth structure, poor aesthetics, loss of vertical dimension and functional problems such as impaired mastication [4]. Is the exposure of the dentin, which leads to the condition known as dentin hypersensitivity, which is characterized by short, sharp pain arising from exposed dentin in response to stimuli, commonly thermal, evaporative, tactile, osmotic or chemical, which cannot be related to any other form of dental defect or pathology [5]. The medications taken for the treatment of asthma can result in dental erosion and dentin hypersensitivity
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