General health and oral health status in elderly dental patients in Isparta, Turkey

The aim of this study was to describe the oral health, general health status and medication use of elderly dental patients 709 voluntary patients, aged 60 years and over, who attended Suleyman Demirel University Faculty of Dentistry for routine dental treatment between March 2008 and April 2009 in Isparta, Turkey, were interviewed for demographic data, systemic diseases, and lists of medications. The majority of the patients [84.4%] had poor oral hygiene according to the Oral Hygiene Index [OHI]. The mean level of the study population's decayed, missing, and filled teeth [DMFT] index score was 19.1 +/- 7.3. The prevalence of systemic diseases was high [90%]. Women were affected by a significantly higher incidence of systemic diseases than men [96.4% vs. 84.3%; P < 0.001]. The percentage of the elderly taking medication regularly was 72.6%. Drug adverse effects were determined in 25.5% of the study population, with more adverse effects observed in women [53.3%] than men [46.7%] [P < 0.001]. Dentists must be aware of the dental implications that may arise from systemic diseases and medications and should properly modify elderly patients' treatment accordingly

Influência de fármacos na movimentação dentária induzida / The influence of drugs on orthodontic tooth movement

A Ortodontia está fundamentada na habilidade do profissional em produzir umacontrolada movimentação dos dentes através do osso alveolar, a partir da aplicação da forçaortodôntica. Entretanto, a movimentação ortodôntica pode ser influenciada por vários fatores,dentre eles, o uso de medicamentos. Em vista do exposto, o objetivo deste trabalho foirealizar uma revisão narrativa da literatura sobre a influência de fármacos ou suplementos namovimentação dentária induzida. Como a maior parte dos trabalhos foi realizada com animaise não com humanos e há grande variabilidade entre as metodologias, não se pode afirmarcategoricamente sobre qualquer modificação na movimentação ortodôntica causada poralgum tipo de fármaco que o paciente utilize durante o tratamento ortodôntico. Vislumbra-se,futuramente, atuar na taxa da movimentação ortodôntica com o auxílio de medicamentos.

Orthodontics is based on the professional's ability to produce a controlledteeth movement in alveolar bone through the application of orthodontic force. However, theorthodontic movement may be influenced by several factors, including the use of medicines.Due to it, the aim of this study was to perform a narra tive literature review on the effectsof drugs on experimental tooth movement. As most experimental studies were done withanimais instead of humans and there is a great variability among the methodologies, stetementscannot yet be done about any change in tooth movement caused by some kind ofmedication took by patients during orthodontic treatment. We envision in the future actingon orthodontic tooth movement with the aid of drugs.