BACKGROUND Intraoral disease is a common occurrence in patients with eating disorders, particularly dental erosion, which frequently becomes severe and may hinder daily life. The severity varies from patient to patient. Understanding the underlying mechanisms may help prevent dental erosion in these patients. Accordingly, we investigated the relationship between the severity of erosion and the ...

Dental erosion due to intrinsic factors is caused by gastric acid reaching the oral cavity and the teeth as a result of wmiting or gastroesophageal reflux. Since clinical manifestation of dental erosion does not occur until gastric acid has acted 011 the dental hard tissues regularly over a period of several years. dental erosion caused by intrinsic factors has been observed only in those disea...

This cross-sectional survey was conducted to assess the prevalence and severity of dental erosion and to determine the potential risk factors for dental erosion among 11- to 14-year-old school children in South India. The total sample size for the study was 605, of which 303 school children were from private schools and 302 from public schools. A questionnaire was designed to record information...

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE Dental erosion in young individuals has increased significantly in recent years, due to changes in lifestyle. Thus, the present study investigated the prevalence and factors associated with dental erosion in individuals aged 12-30 years in the city of Imperatriz of Maranhão, Brazil. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on 335 individuals who answered ...

1Department of Biological Sciences, Bauru School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, 17012-901 Bauru SP, Brazil 2Clinic for Preventive Dentistry, Periodontology and Cariology, University of Zurich, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland 3Department of Cariology and Gerodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Oslo, 0455 Oslo, Norway 4Department of Conservative and Preventive Dentistry, Dental Clinic...

BACKGROUND Overviews of the current literature only provide summaries of existing relevant preventive strategies for dental erosion. OBJECTIVES To perform a systematic review according to the quantitative meta-analysis method of the scientific literature on prevention of dental erosion. The focused question will address primary prevention of dental erosion by calcium and fluoride. MATERIALS...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the change in the prevalence of dental erosion, over time, by a review of the data from the published national dental surveys of young people in the UK. A subsidiary objective was to investigate the relationship between erosion and possible associated risk factors. DESIGN The review was based on cross-sectional prevalence studies incorporating a clinical dental exami...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and severity of dental erosion among 12-year-old schoolchildren in Joaçaba, southern Brazil, and to compare prevalence between boys and girls, and between public and private school students. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out involving all of the municipality's 499, 12-year-old schoolchildren. The dental erosion index p...

The Gastro-Esophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a condition resulting from the anatomical and/or functional failure of the containment mechanisms of gastric contents, having as one of its main consequences in the oral cavity dental erosion. The aim of this work is to carry out a showdown between publications that have rated the relationship GERD and dental erosion. Systematic review of the liter...