[Periodontal alterations in patients with hepatic cirrhosis. Note II]

Following up the evolution of a series of 85 patients with hepatic cirrhosis, a number of alterations concerning the whole maxillo-facial area and especially the marginal periodontium in a proportion of 93%, were noticed. A direct relation between the status of the marginal periodontium and the degree of hepatic affection could be established. The clinical alterations at the level of periodontium were in keeping with the histological and biochemical ones, fact resulting from the complementary examinations (amino-acids, G.D.H. and L.D.H. emzymes and seric proteins determinations) performed at the level of liver and periodontal tissue, both in animals and in cirrhotic patients.