Oral health in children undergoing liver transplantation

International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry
E C SheehyG O'Brien

Abstract

To determine the prevalence of dental caries in children undergoing liver transplantation and to compare the plaque, gingivitis, and gingival overgrowth indices and oral mucosal lesions in children before and after liver transplantation. Patients undergoing liver transplantation at King's College Hospital were examined before transplantation, at 3 and 106 days post-transplantation. Healthy children from the Greenwich Health District, south-east London, were matched to the liver transplant patients by age, gender, socio-economic factors and the presence or absence of active dental caries. Twenty-seven liver transplant patients (mean age: 7 years and 10 months; SD 3 years and 5 months) and 27 controls (mean age: 8 years and 6 months; SD 3 years and 7 months) were examined. The mean dmft and DMFT scores were 2.3 (SD 4.1) and 0.8 (SD 1.4), respectively, in the liver transplant patients, and 1.2 (SD 2.2) and 0.9 (SD 1.5), respectively, in the controls. There were no significant differences between either the mean plaque or gingivitis indices for the primary and permanent teeth in patients before and after transplantation. There were no significant differences between the liver transplant patients and the controls for either mean pla...Continue Reading

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