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Oral health status among Iranian veterans exposed to sulfur mustard: A case-control study

BACKGROUND: Sulfur mustard (SM) is a chemical warfare agent that has been repeatedly used since World War I. SM has chronic and deleterious effects on different body organs such as lungs, skin and eyes. OBJECTIVES: To determine dental and oral health status of chemical victims of SM who were exposed...

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Autores principales: Panahi, Yunes, Azizi, Taghi, Moghadam, Mohammad-Reza-Sadeghi, Amin, Golshah, Parvin, Shahram, Sahebkar, Amirhossein
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Publicado: Medicina Oral S.L. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4483322/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26155331
http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/jced.52112
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author Panahi, Yunes
Azizi, Taghi
Moghadam, Mohammad-Reza-Sadeghi
Amin, Golshah
Parvin, Shahram
Sahebkar, Amirhossein
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Azizi, Taghi
Moghadam, Mohammad-Reza-Sadeghi
Amin, Golshah
Parvin, Shahram
Sahebkar, Amirhossein
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description BACKGROUND: Sulfur mustard (SM) is a chemical warfare agent that has been repeatedly used since World War I. SM has chronic and deleterious effects on different body organs such as lungs, skin and eyes. OBJECTIVES: To determine dental and oral health status of chemical victims of SM who were exposed to SM during the Iraqi-Iran war. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In this case-control study, 100 male subjects exposed to SM were chosen as cases, and 100 non-exposed volunteers were chosen as controls. These groups were selected randomly according to their referral number, and were matched regarding age. Collection of information was performed using Oral Health Assessment Form designed by the World Health Organization. Quantitative and qualitative data were compared between the groups using independent samples t-test and Chi-square test, respectively. RESULTS: There was a significant difference between the case and control groups with respect to the frequencies of oral candidiasis, pharyngeal erythema and/or hyperplasia, hairy tongue and reflux disease, being higher in the former group. There was also a positive association between the frequency of candidiasis and the percentage of disability; pharyngeal erythema and/or hyperplasia and use of salmeterol spray; and between hairy tongue and antibiotic use in the case group. CONCLUSIONS: Exposure to SM and the use of drugs for controlling long-term complications does not increase the risk of tooth decay, tooth loss, and intra and/or extra oral lesions in patients, but may be associated with increased incidence of oral candidiasis, pharyngeal erythema and/or hyperplasia, hairy tongue and reflux disease.samples of oral precancerous and cancerous lesions to test sensitivity and specificity and thus validate the clinical applicability of fluorescence imaging in (pre)cancerous diagnostics. Key words:Sulfur mustard, oral health, candidiasis.
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spelling pubmed-44833222015-07-07 Oral health status among Iranian veterans exposed to sulfur mustard: A case-control study Panahi, Yunes Azizi, Taghi Moghadam, Mohammad-Reza-Sadeghi Amin, Golshah Parvin, Shahram Sahebkar, Amirhossein J Clin Exp Dent Research BACKGROUND: Sulfur mustard (SM) is a chemical warfare agent that has been repeatedly used since World War I. SM has chronic and deleterious effects on different body organs such as lungs, skin and eyes. OBJECTIVES: To determine dental and oral health status of chemical victims of SM who were exposed to SM during the Iraqi-Iran war. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In this case-control study, 100 male subjects exposed to SM were chosen as cases, and 100 non-exposed volunteers were chosen as controls. These groups were selected randomly according to their referral number, and were matched regarding age. Collection of information was performed using Oral Health Assessment Form designed by the World Health Organization. Quantitative and qualitative data were compared between the groups using independent samples t-test and Chi-square test, respectively. RESULTS: There was a significant difference between the case and control groups with respect to the frequencies of oral candidiasis, pharyngeal erythema and/or hyperplasia, hairy tongue and reflux disease, being higher in the former group. There was also a positive association between the frequency of candidiasis and the percentage of disability; pharyngeal erythema and/or hyperplasia and use of salmeterol spray; and between hairy tongue and antibiotic use in the case group. CONCLUSIONS: Exposure to SM and the use of drugs for controlling long-term complications does not increase the risk of tooth decay, tooth loss, and intra and/or extra oral lesions in patients, but may be associated with increased incidence of oral candidiasis, pharyngeal erythema and/or hyperplasia, hairy tongue and reflux disease.samples of oral precancerous and cancerous lesions to test sensitivity and specificity and thus validate the clinical applicability of fluorescence imaging in (pre)cancerous diagnostics. Key words:Sulfur mustard, oral health, candidiasis. Medicina Oral S.L. 2015-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4483322/ /pubmed/26155331 http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/jced.52112 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Medicina Oral S.L. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Panahi, Yunes
Azizi, Taghi
Moghadam, Mohammad-Reza-Sadeghi
Amin, Golshah
Parvin, Shahram
Sahebkar, Amirhossein
Oral health status among Iranian veterans exposed to sulfur mustard: A case-control study
title Oral health status among Iranian veterans exposed to sulfur mustard: A case-control study
title_full Oral health status among Iranian veterans exposed to sulfur mustard: A case-control study
title_fullStr Oral health status among Iranian veterans exposed to sulfur mustard: A case-control study
title_full_unstemmed Oral health status among Iranian veterans exposed to sulfur mustard: A case-control study
title_short Oral health status among Iranian veterans exposed to sulfur mustard: A case-control study
title_sort oral health status among iranian veterans exposed to sulfur mustard: a case-control study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4483322/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26155331
http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/jced.52112
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