ABSTRACT
The aim of this study was to assess whether a toothpaste containing amyloglucosidase and glucose oxidase (Z) provoked any effect on minor recurrent aphthous ulcers, (RAU) as compared with a placebo toothpaste (P). Twenty patients (11 females), suffering from minor RAU, participated in this study during a period of 15 weeks. The patients brushed their teeth twice a day with the toothpaste. They were examined once a week to monitor the number and size of ulcers. The mean number of ulcers in both groups was about 40
lower than that found before treatment. Ulcer mean diameter had also decreased in both the placebo (about 32
) and experimental groups (about 66
). There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups in number of weeks with ulcers, in total number of ulcers per patient, and in mean diameter of the ulcers. In conclusion, no significant differences in therapeutic effects could be shown between treatments with Z and P.
ABSTRACT
In this study the relative frequency of oral lesions was evaluated in a group of 526 patients, 55 years old or elder. Clinical and pathological data were obtained from 244 patients who attended to a clinic of Medical and Social Assistance Program (PAMI) ad from 282 cases registered in the files of the Surgical Pathology Laboratory F.O.U.B.A. (LAP) since 1984 to 1986. The mean age of the groups was 63 years old. The most frequency lesions were the pseudotumors (44.6
) in LAP and (17.2
) in PAMI; premalignant lesions were (20.5
) in LAP, while in PAMI (2.4
). The cysts in LAP found (15.6
) in PAMI were (2.4
). The groups of PAMI showed (90
) of Candidiasis. Traumatic ulcer (30.7
) and afthae (28.8
) the traumatic ulcer. The malignant tumors the most frequency was carcinoma espinocelular (8.16
) LAP and (6.56
) PAMI. It was remarkable that stomatodine as represented in PAMI (72.2
) and Candidiasis were (90
of the specific inflammations. Results suggest that oral mobility in elderly patients correlates with the findings in this type of social assisted groups. The figures of the importance of methodical collaboration of Stomatologists and Oral Pathologists for differential diagnosis.
ABSTRACT
The prevalence of grooved tongue, geographic tongue, and ankyloglossia, was investigated in 660 children, 3 to 13 years old, which attended the Out patient Clinic of the University Hospital of Buenos Aires for unrelated complaints. The figures obtained are at variance--by far--from those published by other people engaged in the same line of research. Probably, further studies with a much larger amount of patients are called for.