Optimizing nutrition and oral health for caregivers-intervention protocol.

Background: The focus of care has shifted from institutional care to home care. Family caregivers provide the majority of home care that allows an opportunity for their care recipients to live at home and avoid costly institutional care. The aim of this study is to describe the nutritional status, oral health, and quality of life of family caregivers over the age of 65 and their care recipients, and to evaluate the impact of individually tailored diet and oral health advice to their nutritional status and oral health.

Oral mucosal health in liver transplant recipients and controls.

Immunosuppressive drugs and other medications may predispose patients to oral diseases. Data on oral mucosal health in recipients of liver transplantation (LT) are limited. We, therefore, recruited 84 LT recipients (64 with chronic liver disease and 20 with acute liver failure) for clinical oral examinations in a cross-sectional, case-control study.

Xerostomia in hereditary gelsolin amyloidosis.

Hereditary gelsolin amyloidosis (AGel amyloidosis) is a rare, dominantly inherited systemic disease with worldwide distribution, caused by c.654G > A or c.654G > T gelsolin gene mutation.

Self-reported oral symptoms and signs in liver transplant recipients and a control population.

Recipients of liver transplantation (LT) receive lifelong immunosuppression, which causes side effects. We investigated self-reported oral symptoms and associated risk factors with the following hypothesis: symptoms and signs would differ between LT recipients of different etiology groups and also between LT recipients and a control population. Eighty-four LT recipients (64 with chronic liver disease and 20 with acute liver disease) were recruited for clinical oral and salivary examinations (median follow-up = 5.

Serum cholesterol ratios and periodontal infection: results of the Health 2000 Survey.

Aim: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate whether serum total cholesterol/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (TC/HDL) ratio and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL/HDL) ratio are associated with periodontal infection.

Materials And Methods: This study was based on a subpopulation of the Health 2000 Survey, which included dentate, non-diabetic subjects who had never smoked and who were aged between 30 and 49 years (n=1297). The numbers of teeth with deepened (4 mm deep or deeper) and with deep (6 mm deep or deeper) periodontal pockets were used as outcome variables, as well as the presence of gingival bleeding.