However, the pattern of association of asthma and dental caries has been more frequently studied among children.īecause adults normally are more prone to dental caries due to cumulative effects as they age, we conducted a retrospective cohort study of untreated dental caries severity among asthmatic adults. Accumulating evidence suggests that asthmatic patients have an increased risk of dental caries. Over decades many papers have studied the association between asthma and oral health. These two conditions result in both a burden on patient quality of life as well as tremendous socio-economic impact. Like asthma, dental caries is a common public health condition particularly prevalent among high-risk individuals. Looking forward, better understanding of the association between asthma and oral health may require exploiting the interactions of behavioural, social determinant and biological factors.Īsthma is a common chronic condition that was still rising in prevalence in many countries during the last decades of the twentieth century but has stabilized in others. Patients with asthma showed a greater number of untreated carious lesions. The adjusted model, after the inclusion of individuals’ behaviours regarding oral health, social determinants and asthma, revealed a significant association between the number of untreated carious lesions and asthma (PR = 1.23 95% CI 1.23–1.58 p < 0.001). Poisson regression analysis examined the association between asthma and untreated dental caries. Recorded variables included demographics, socio-economic status, tooth brushing habits and oral health status using WHO criteria.

The outcome measure was the rate of carious lesions. The study involved participants with diagnosed asthma (N = 100) and control (N = 100) subjects attending a tertiary hospital. The aims of this study were to evaluate the severity of untreated carious lesions in a population of asthmatic adults and to evaluate the mediation of socio-economic and oral health behaviour variables. However, the association between dental caries and asthma is less studied among adults. Depending on risk factors, cumulative risk of developing more dental caries by age has been reported.

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