ABSTRACT
Periodontal disease has affected human kind since times unknown. Various parameters are available to determine whether the tissue has been affected by the disease or not. In this study the reliance of subgingival temperature to be one of the parameters to determine the same has been evaluated.
Subject(s)
Adult , Body Temperature/physiology , Dental Plaque Index , Dental Prophylaxis , Dental Scaling , Equipment Design , Follow-Up Studies , Gingiva/physiology , Gingival Hemorrhage/physiopathology , Humans , Male , Oral Hygiene , Periodontal Diseases/physiopathology , Periodontal Index , Reproducibility of Results , Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted/instrumentation , Statistics as Topic , ThermometersABSTRACT
La mucosa oral es frecuentemente asiento de lesiones vinculadas a enfermedades sistémicas, y dentro de éstas destacamos las discrasias sanguíneas. Se estudiaron en el Hospital de Clínicas José de San Martín, 15 pacientes con patologías de la mucosa oral cuyas enfermedades de base fueron leucemia, aplasia medular y linfoma. De estos, 10 presentaron manifestaciones hemorragíparas, 7 pacientes con lesiones ulceronecróticas y 2 casos de hipertrofia gingival por infiltración neoplásica