Oral health and dental status in people with epilepsy in rural China
Autor: | Ding Ding, Zhen Hong, Patrick Kwan, Mengjie Wang, Wenzhi Wang, Guoxing Zhu, Qing Zhang, Taiping Wang, Yan Ge, Bin Yang, Josemir W. Sander |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
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Male Rural Population China Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Multivariate analysis Oral Health Dental Caries Oral health Logistic regression Odds Cohort Studies 03 medical and health sciences Epilepsy 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Tooth loss medicine Humans Ecosystem business.industry Univariate General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease stomatognathic diseases Cross-Sectional Studies Neurology Tooth Diseases Cohort Female Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
Zdroj: | Seizure. 65:42-47 |
ISSN: | 1059-1311 |
Popis: | We evaluated the oral health and dental status of people with epilepsy, and their relationship to seizure frequency, in a community cohort in rural China.A cross-sectional study of people with epilepsy was carried out in areas in Henan, Shanxi and Ningxia provinces of China. All participants underwent a specially designed "Oral health and Dental status Questionnaire". Univariate and multivariate analyses were used to explore the relationships between seizure frequency and oral health and dental status.A total of 875 people participated. Almost two thirds (65.8%) reported brushing their teeth at least once a day but 634 (73.0%) brushed their teeth for less than 3 min each time. Only 80 (9.1%) had visited a dental clinic in the previous year. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that having 1-4 seizures/month (OR 0.60, 95%CI 0.40-0.90) or4 seizures/month (OR 0.38, 95%CI 0.22-0.66) was associated with decreased odds of brushing teeth at least once a day, and higher seizure frequency was associated with increased odds of dental injury due to seizures (OR 2.07, 95%CI 1.22-3.50 for1 seizure/month; OR 2.12, 95%CI 1.25-3.58 for 1-4 seizures/month; OR 3.09, 95%CI 1.57-6.07 for4 seizures/month).Seizure frequency was significantly associated with seizure-related dental injury, and with the lack of good oral health practice. Improvement in the oral health of people with epilepsy in resource-poor areas should be encouraged. |
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