Oral health status of children with phenylketonuria
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Elif Ballikaya
,
Yilmaz Yildiz
,
Hatice Serap Sivri
,
Aysegul Tokatli
Abstract
Background
Diet plays an integral role in the maintenance of oral health, but dietary modifications due to medical problems such as phenylketonuria (PKU) can have adverse effects on oral health. This descriptive study was performed to evaluate the oral health status of children with PKU.
Methods
One hundred and ninety-seven patients with PKU aged between 1 and 22 years were evaluated. Clinical evaluations were performed by one experienced dentist regarding dental caries, gingival health and dental erosion. Categorical variables were assessed with descriptive statistics. Differences in feeding frequencies and sociodemographic characteristics were compared regarding dental caries using chi-square (χ2) tests.
Results
One hundred and thirty-two patients (67%) had dental caries. The mean plaque index (PI) and gingival index (GI) values were 1.37 ± 0.58 and 1.40 ± 0.64, respectively, which shows moderate plaque accumulation and moderate gingival inflammation. Of the patients, 85.3% did not brush their teeth regularly and 90.4% had never visited a dentist before. No statistically significant differences were found in dental caries according to feeding frequencies (p = 0.448).
Conclusions
Despite the high prevalence of caries in patients with PKU, most had never seen a dentist. Physicians must encourage patients with PKU and their parents to have regular dental visits to maintain an optimal general and oral health.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: None declared.
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- Frontmatter
- Original Articles
- Vitamin D status in Israeli pediatric type 1 diabetes patients: the AWeSoMe Study Group experience and literature review
- Metabolic features and changes in glucose-induced serum glucagon-like peptide-1 levels in children with hypothalamic obesity
- Assessment of intima-media thickness of the carotid artery and intraluminal diameter of the brachial artery as cardiovascular risk markers in Brazilian adolescents with overweight or obesity
- The role of LCPUFA-ω3 on the obesity-associated hyperandrogenemia of pubertal girls: secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial
- Genetic variants of the phenylalanine hydroxylase gene in patients with phenylketonuria in the northeast of Iran
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- Birth weight related blood concentrations of the neurotransmission amino acids glutamine plus glutamate, phenylalanine and tyrosine in full-term breastfed infants perinatally
- Hyperthyrotropinemia is common in preterm infants who are born small for gestational age
- Radioactive iodine therapy for pediatric Graves’ disease: a single-center experience over a 10-year period
- The decision-making levels of urine tetrasaccharide for the diagnosis of Pompe disease in the Turkish population
- A questionnaire study on sleep disturbances associated with Prader-Willi syndrome
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- Two different missense mutations of PEX genes in two similar patients with severe Zellweger syndrome: an argument on the genotype-phenotype correlation
- Patient report
- Marked phenotypic variable expression among brothers with duplication of Xq27.1 involving the SOX3 gene
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