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Myasthenia Gravis |
Dental Hygiene and Myasthenia Gravis01/10/2001 |
I am in my first year of Dental Hygiene school and I need to do an informative presentation about myasthenia gravis. From this health related field I wanted to know if this disorder is related to any oral hygiene problems specifically. Do the medications that are taken cause any type of xerostomia? Do the patients show an increase in caries? Just anything you can think of that may be related to my field of study on this particular disease? Any info would be greatly appreciated. I didn`t see anything that was of this nature in the already asked questions? Thank you,
1) There is NO valid information to suggest at present that dental disease is involved in the pathogenesis of the disease. 2) The only dental complications I am aware of is gingival hyperplasia caused by cyclosporine. 3) I am not aware of any study of dental caries among patients with myasthenia gravis. 4) Common concerns regarding dental health relate to two situations. One, anesthetics or narcotics used for or after dental procedures may weaken a patient. This is rare and usually occurs in patients with obvious weakness. Two, most patients are receiving immunosuppression. Therefore, patients may be more likely to develop dental infections.
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Henry J Kaminski, MD Formerly, Professor of Neurology Department of Neurology School of Medicine Case Western Reserve University |
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