TY  - JOUR
TI  - Clinical evaluation of dental enamel defects and oral findings in coeliac children
AB  - To examine dental hard and soft tissue changes of coeliac children in order toincrease the awareness of the pediatric dentists in prediagnosis of especiallyundiagnosed coeliac disease.Materials and methodsSixty children, 28 (46.7%) boys and 32 (53.3%) girls whose ages were between 6 to16 years were included in the present study. Thirty children who had undergoneendoscopy and diagnosed with the coeliac disease in the Şişli Hamidiye EtfalHospital, İstanbul, Turkey, formed the study group. Also, thirty children clinicallysuspected of having the coeliac disease with the same gastrointestinal complaintshad undergone endoscopy and proven not coeliac were chosen as the control group.Oral examination involved assessment of dentition and specific and unspecificdental enamel defects. Also, soft tissue lesions, clinical delay of the dental eruption,salivary flow rate, pH, and buffering capacity were examined.ResultsTwenty coeliac patients had enamel defects, however none in the control subjects.In the coeliac group, all enamel defects were diagnosed in permanent teeth and asspecific in all children. Grade I dental enamel defects found mainly in the incisors.The clinical delayed eruption was observed in 10 (33.3%) of 30 coeliac children andnone of the children in the control group. While the level of DMFT/S numbers andstimulated salivary flow rate were found significantly lower in the coeliac group, pHwas found significantly higher.ConclusionOral cavity may be involved in coeliac disease and pediatric dentists can play animportant role in the early diagnosis of the coeliac disease.
AU  - Yarat, Aysen
AU  - Akyuz, Serap
AU  - USTA, Merve
AU  - URGANCI, Nafiye
AU  - Uslu Kızılkan, Nuray
AU  - Aksit-Bicak, Damla
AU  - Alev-Tuzuner, Burcin
DO  - 10.26650/eor.2018.525
PY  - 2018
JO  - European oral research (Online)
VL  - 52
IS  - 3
SN  - 2630-6158
SP  - 150
EP  - 156
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/347559
ER  -