Znachenie éndokrinnykh faktorov i mikroorganizmov v razvitii gingivita beremennykh

L. Abraham-Inpijn, O. V. Polsacheva, J. E. Raber-Durlacher

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Abstract

40-100% of pregnant women suffer from the co-called pregnancy gingivitis. The cause of pregnancy gingivitis is possible multicausal: increased plasma female sex-hormones, alteration in dental plague and perhaps Prevotella intermedia in the subgingival plague, together with alteration of immunoresponse. Increasing levels of progesterone in the gingiva as well as estrogens due to specific receptors affect vascular permeability and exudation, provoke stasis of microcirculation, increase prostaglandine E2 formation in human gingiva. Decreased gingival keratinization and capability of cell regeneration may affect the epithelial barrier. This can perhaps explain the direct dependence between progesterone and estrogens increasing and the intensification of gingivitis clinical manifestation. The experimental gingivitis model of women during pregnancy and post-partum showed identical amounts of dental plague, but clinical manifestations were more intense during pregnancy and they had a relation with increasing P. Intermedia, no statistical significance was shown in the proportion of P. gingivalis. Increasing steroid hormones can substitute for the naphtoquinone requirement of P. intermedia. Optimal oral hygiene performed during pregnancy reduced gingival swelling, redness and bleeding tendency to levels which can be considered as physiologic for the pregnant state
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)15-18
JournalStomatologiia
Volume75
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 1996

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