[Changes in the mouth mucosa in patients with chronic inflammatory intestinal diseases].
BACKGROUND
Oral mucosa and periodontal lesions occurrence in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and Crohn Disease (CD).


METHODS
This study involved 100 patients examined for 5 years (1990/1995), with a clinical and histopathological diagnosis of CD (21 patients) and UC (79 patients).


RESULTS
The analysis of the data obtained, from our sample, showed that 5 patients out of 100 presented aphtha minor lesions; in 3 cases the diagnosis was, respectively, of two neoformations of the genian mucosa--which turned out to be a papilloma and a fibroma--and a retro-commissural leukoplakia, degree OIN I. The 50% of our patients presented parodontal lesions, oral candidosis in 15 out of 67 patients who presented a whitish coating on the back of the tongue.


CONCLUSIONS
The results of this investigation, lessen the importance of an association between IBD and oral diseases.
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Istituto di Chirurgia Orale e Maxillo Facciale, Seconda Università degli Studi, Napoli.
Riegler
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Lanza
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Tartaro
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Russo
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000150:complications*; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000473:pathology*