Management of oral focal infection in patients with asthmatic symptoms
<span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>Asthma is commonly related to allergic diseases, nevertheless only 40% of asthma patients are related to allergy or atopy. There </em><span style=&q...
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Universitas Airlangga,
2006-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | <span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>Asthma is commonly related to allergic diseases, nevertheless only 40% of asthma patients are related to allergy or atopy. There </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>are some unknown etiologies of asthma that are still in researches. One of the possible causes of asthma is the multiple chemical </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>sensitivity syndrome (MCS) which related to the "neurogenic switching hypothesis". Since rhinitis, sinusitis and asthma are closely </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>related, treatments which are successfully reduce or eliminate the rhinitis and sinusitis symptoms should also be advantageous to </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>asthma management. There were a lot of sinusitis treatments which reduced asthma symptoms such as nasal corticosteroid, diathermy </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>and surgery. It was also been reported that oral focal infection might cause sinusitis. However, the involvement of oral focal infection </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>in the etiopathogenesis of asthma was seldom discussed. The objective of this study is to propose a mechanism of the relationship </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>between oral focal infection and asthma which is explained by the "neurogenic switching hypothesis". Two asthmatic patients who </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>also had periodontal disease, pulpal and periapical infection were treated with conventional and/or surgical dental treatments. After </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>the dental and periodontal treatments were completed, the usual triggers of severe asthma attacks such as cold and house dust did not </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>elicit the asthma symptoms. It concluded that regarding to the disappearing of asthma symptoms, the elimination of oral focal </em><span style="font-family: Tribune,Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>infection had a beneficial effect in reducing asthma symptoms.</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> |
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| Item Description: | 1978-3728 2442-9740 10.20473/j.djmkg.v39.i3.p120-125 |