Some features of oral mucosal disease symptoms and clinical manifestations in patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease

Abstract

Relevance. The work presents the results of a comprehensive dental examination of patients with vermilion and oral mucosa proper (OM) diseases associated with manifestations of Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC).Aim. To determine the cause-related features of complaints and clinical manifestations of vermilion and OM diseases.Material and methods. The comprehensive dental examination included the analysis of complaints, history, and assessment of the vermilion and OM condition and the nociceptive pain severity score according to the Visual Analog Scale (VAS).Results and discussion. In CD and UC, the vermillion diseases clinically manifested in 51.43% and 42.85% of subjects (p < 0.01), OM chronic trauma – in 40.0% and 31.43% (p < 0.05), chronic recurrent aphthae – in 48.47% (p < 0.001) and 31.43% (p < 0.01), glossitis – in 62.86% (p < 0.001) and 25.71% (p < 0.01), glossodynia – in 31.43% (p < 0.01) and 17.15% (p < 0.05) of cases. The main complaints of patients with the detected OM pathology included unpleasant sensations, like rawness and soreness, on taking irritating foods in 100% and 65.71% and talking in 31.43% and 25.71% of cases, dry mouth in 51.43% and 25.71% of cases. The burning mouth syndrome was in 31.43% and 17.15% of patients.Conclusion. The vermilion and the oral mucosal diseases often prevail associated with the clinical course of Crohn'sdisease compared to patients with UC. The VAS pain severity score hinges on CD and UC course (p < 0.055). The variety of clinical manifestations of the vermillion and oral mucosal diseases directly depends on CD and UC, a criterion for developing an integrated approach to their diagnosis and implementing recommendations for their prevention and treatment in practical health care.