Changes in the mouth mucosa in patients with chronic inflammatory intestinal diseases
Colella, G.; Riegler, G.; Lanza, A.; Tartaro, G.P.; Russo, M.I.; Tartaglione, M.
Minerva Stomatologica 48(9): 367-371
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-4970 PMID: 10638170 Document Number: 500588
Oral mucosa and periodontal lesions occurrence in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and Crohn Disease (CD). 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). 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. The results of this investigation, lessen the importance of an association between IBD and oral diseases.