Evaluation of the periodontal and microbiological conditions of obese patients submitted to bariatric surgery

Abstract

This article seeks to identify the periodontal and microbiological conditions of obese individuals undergoing bariatric surgery. The focus on obese patients is due to obesity being a growing public health problem, which is increasing in important epidemic proportions all over the world. Thus, this is a cross-sectional study with a qualitative approach, in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) from March to October 2018, with 25 obese patients who proposed to participate in the research. The periodontal situation was identified as: periodontal health, gingivitis and periodontitis. In the microbiological examination, the bacteria Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans (AA), Porphyromonas gingivalis (PG), Streptococcus oralis (SO) and Universal (UN) were identified and quantified using real-time PCR. There was a statistically significant difference (p > 0.05) between the degrees of obesity in terms of gingivitis and periodontitis. The (AA) presented statistically significant difference (p < 0.05) in the situation of gingivitis and periodontal health. It can be concluded that (AA) had a higher average amount in obese individuals, even in the situation of periodontal health and PG lower amount in gingivitis and higher in periodontitis. There was a prevalence of (AA) and (PG) in the supragingival location, and prevalence of (AA), (PG) and (SO) in the subgingival location.