DEFABIANIS, Patrizia. The Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis as a risk factor for dental erosion: a preliminary study. Rev. Assoc. Paul. Cir. Dent. []. 2016, 70, 2, pp. 116-120. ISSN 0004-5276.

The purpose of this study was evaluate the existence of prevalence and risk indicators of dental erosion in patients affected by juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Eighty patients (61 females and 19 males) with different kinds of JIA and 23 healthy control ones aging from 3 to 19 years were included in the study. The inclusion criteria were diagnosis of JIA and subtype classification according to the International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR) criteria. Data on nutritional variables, socioeconomic factors, vomiting, drug intake and dietary and oral habits were collected using a questionnaire. All patients underwent saliva measurement and clinical examination using Basic Erosive Wear Examination (BEWE) Index. Sixteen patients, all affected by the oligoarticular subtype of JIA showed a reduced quantity of stimulated saliva; two of them showed erosion and reported a daily soft drink intake. Vomiting (once a day) was reported by nine patients and was due to methotrexate intake with no correlation with JIR subtype. None of them exhibited erosion. Risk indicator for wear was JIA subtype (oligoarticular arthritis). There was no significant correlation of the presence of dental erosion with nutritional variables, drug intake or dietary and oral habits.

: juvenile idiopathic arthritis; saliva; dental enamel erosion..