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[Changes in the mouth mucosa in patients with chronic inflammatory intestinal diseases]
G Colella1, G Riegler, A Lanza
1Istituto di Chirurgia Orale e Maxillo Facciale, Seconda Università degli Studi, Napoli.
Background:
Oral mucosa and periodontal lesions occurrence in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and Crohn Disease (CD).
Methods:
This study involved 100 patients examined for 5 years (1990/1995), with a clinical and histopathological diagnosis of CD (21 patients) and UC (79 patients).
Results:
The analysis of the data obtained, from our sample, showed that 5 patients out of 100 presented aphtha minor lesions; in 3 cases the diagnosis was, respectively, of two neoformations of the genian mucosa--which turned out to be a papilloma and a fibroma--and a retro-commissural leukoplakia, degree OIN I. The 50% of our patients presented parodontal lesions, oral candidosis in 15 out of 67 patients who presented a whitish coating on the back of the tongue.
Conclusions:
The results of this investigation, lessen the importance of an association between IBD and oral diseases.