The Prevalence And Associated Factors Of Denture Wearing Associated Oral Lesions Among Dental Patients Attending College Of Dentistry Clinics In Aljouf University
European Scientific Journal February 2016 edition vol.12
The Prevalence And Associated Factors Of Denture Wearing Associated Oral Lesions Among Dental Patients Attending College Of Dentistry Clinics In Aljouf University
Abdalwhab M. A. Zwiri 0
0 Assistant professor of oral medicine, College of Dentistry. Aljouf University , Sakaka, Aljouf , Saudi Arabia
Background: oral lesions can be induced by wearing dentures and have been associated with impacting the quality of life of dental patients. Study objectives: to determine the prevalence of denture associated oral lesions and their associated possible factors in college of dentistry clinics, Aljouf University. Methods and subjects: this was a retrospective study to collect data from files of patients who wear dentures. The study included 344 patients. All files were reviewed and the extracted data were further analyzed using SPSS version 20. The relationships between variables were tested using One Way Anova and Pearson correlation. Data were presented as frequencies, percentages, means, and standard deviation. Significance was examined at alpha < 0.05. Results: a total of 344 files were reviewed. The following oral lesions were found: denture stomatitis (48.8%), papillary hyperplasia (39.8%), traumatic keratosis (22.1%), angular cheilitis (16.9%), and erythematous candidiasis (10.2%). No significant relationships were found between oral lesions and both age and gender bases on One Way Anova test. Pearson correlation showed a significant positive correlation between traumatic keratosis and age (r=0.110, p=0.042), and a negative correlation between traumatic keratosis and erythematous candidiasis (r=-0.110, p=0.039). Conclusions: The present studies showed that oral lesions associated with wearing denture are prevalent and create health problems that impact the quality of life of dental patients
Oral lesions; dentures; angular cheilitis; hyperplasia; stomatitis; erythematous candidiasis; traumatic keratosis
Introduction
There has been an increased prevalence of oral lesions over time
which is usually associated with tooth loss and the need to use dentures
(Coelho et al., 2004)
.
Several oral lesions associated with wearing dentures have been
reported to include denture stomatitis, erythematous candidiasis, angular
cheilitis, traumatic keratosis and papillary hyperplasia
(Pegah et al., 2012;
Aiman et al., 2013; Mubarak et al., 2015)
.
Denture stomatitis is considered as an infectious condition in which
oral mucosa is infected by fungi and to a lesser extent by bacteria in the area
under the denture
(Lakshmi, 2015)
. According to
Girard et al (1996
), the
occurrence of ulcers is likely to due to newly fitted dentures and resorption
of alveolar bone.
Angular cheilitis is a mucocutaneous lesion associated with deep
fissures, and ulcerated appearance. The occurrence of angular cheilitis
depends on various factors including nutritional, systemic, and drug-related
factors
(Park et al., 2011)
. Angular cheilitis has an infectious nature and the
patients usually suffer from burning of their lip angels
(Sharon and Fazel,
2010)
.
Erythematous candidiasis has been described in an association with
burning sensations either in in the oral cavity or the tongue. It is possible that
the appearance of tongue to be either bright red or bald appearance
(Pankaj
et al., 2015)
.
The study of Anura (2014) confirmed that the wearing of denture
wearing is associated with various oral lesions including histological and
gross changes. Patil et al (2013) conducted a study to determine the
frequency of oral lesions among denture wearers in a North Indian
population. The results showed that the prevalence of frictional keratosis was
(19.9%).
Mubarak et al (2015) conducted a study to identify the frequency of
oral lesions associated with denture wearing among dental patients visiting
the clinics of the College of Dentistry, University of Dammam. The results
showed that the frequency of oral lesions was 20.5% of studied cases.
Hyperplasia was the most frequent induced lesion (41.9%). The researchers
found a significant correlation (P = 0.004) between the type of denture and
oral lesions.
Sadig (2010)
conducted a study to examine the frequency and
associated factors with denture stomatitis among dental patients who wear
dentures. The results indicated that the prevalence of denture stomatitis was
62%.
Sharmila. and Muralidharan (2015
) conducted a study to evaluate the
presence of Candida albicans in complete denture wearers with angular
chelitis. The results indicated that coagulase negative staphylococcus and
viridans streptococcus were more likely to be encountered in such lesions.
The researchers also identified some species of Candida albicans.
Study objectives
The main objective of the present study is to determine the
prevalence of denture associated oral lesions and their associated possible
factors in college of dentistry clinics, Aljouf University.
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