Association of Periodontal Disease with Activity of Crohn’s Disease

Miloš Živić, Nebojša Zdravković, Bojan Stojanović, Bojan Milošević, Željko Todorović, Miljan Adamović, Nataša Zdravković · 2023

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Milos Zivic and colleagues examined gum disease in Crohn's disease patients in two thousand twenty-three. Crohn's disease inflames the whole digestive tract. Mouth problems are one known side effect. Gum disease destroys the tissues holding teeth. The team asked whether gum severity tracks Crohn's activity. They scored bowel activity with clinical and scope indexes.

Dental checks measured attachment loss, bleeding, and pocket depth. X-rays showed supporting bone loss. Patients with active Crohn's had worse gum measures overall. One bleeding measure broke that pattern. Gum values ran higher in active disease than remission. Dentists and bowel doctors gain a reason to coordinate care.

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CREATORMiloš Živić, Nebojša Zdravković, Bojan Stojanović, Bojan Milošević, Željko Todorović, Miljan Adamović, Nataša Zdravković
YEAR2023
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE23 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10744647

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