Gingival immunologic defense index: a new indicator for evaluating dental plaque infection risk in allergic children

• Main Authors: Seno Pradopo (Author), Haryono Utomo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universitas Airlangga, 2008-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

<span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>There is a possible relationship between dental plaque and children allergic diseases. According to literatures, gingivitis suffered </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>mostly by allergic children than control. Case reports also revealed that dental plaque control therapy was able to reduce, even </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>eliminate rhinosinusitis and asthmatic symptoms without additional medications. However, the exact method for confirming the </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>gingivitis-related allergy is still uncertain. Allergic diseases have multifactorial etiologies and dental plaque had been proposed as a </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>new trigger of allergic symptoms. Nevertheless, since not every child with gingivitis suffered from allergy or vice versa, this uncertain </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>phenomenon may lead to patients or other clinician disbelief. The objective of the present study was to propose a new method, which </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>involving the Gingival immunologic defense index (GIDI) to evaluate the susceptibility to allergic diseases. GIDI is an index that had </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>been developed earlier for evaluating gingival immunologic defense with respect to immunoglobulin A (IgA) levels. This index based </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>on the simple count of the inflamed gingival surfaces of a child plus the measurement of salivary IgA content. It provides clinicians </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>with important information about the immunologic defense potential of each subject. Interestingly, most allergic children also had </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>inherited IgA deficiency, thus this concept is likely. Based on literatures, GIDI could be a potential index for evaluating the risk of </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>allergic diseases through gingival health assessment. However, prior investigation to the value of Indonesian GIDI index which related </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>to allergy should be conducted.</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" /></span>

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1978-3728
2442-9740
10.20473/j.djmkg.v41.i1.p43-46