title: Caries experience in asthmatic children: a review of literature.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This review explores the discriminating factors involved for increased caries experience in asthmatic children.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Dental caries is the single most common chronic disease of childhood. Children with chronic medical conditions are considered high caries risk. Asthma is one of the most common chronic medical conditions in childhood.
  
  
  METHODS
  27 studies examined the asthma-caries causative relationship. Most of them were cross sectional studies; only 5 longitudinal studies were reported. In the literature, there is a lack of consensus regarding the relationship between dental caries and asthma in a child population.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Despite the fact that some relatively recent studies have provided little evidence for an asthma-caries causative relationship, the majority and the most recent reports have concluded that the individualistic nature of asthmatic condition, through either its disease status or its pharmacotherapy (diferent combinations of medicaments), or attempts to alleviate the condition's physiologic sequelea, carries several factors for an increased caries risk.
authors.affiliation: National Guard Health Affairs, King Abdulaziz Medical City Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Jihan Mohammed
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Turkistani
authors.forename: Najat
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Farsi
authors.forename: Abdullah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Almushayt
authors.forename: Sumer
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Alaki
mesh_terms: D018927:Anti-Asthmatic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001249:Asthma / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D004245:DMF Index; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology; D003733:Dental Caries Susceptibility; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors
chemical_list: D018927:Anti-Asthmatic Agents