Candida-associated denture stomatitis.

Candida albicans is a dimorphic yeast strongly gram positive able to live as normal commensal organism in the oral cavity of healthy people. It is the yeast more frequently isolated in the oral cavity. Under local and systemic factors related to the host conditions, it becomes virulent and responsible of oral diseases known as oral candidiasis.

Report of a case of discoid lupus erythematosus localised to the oral cavity: immunofluorescence findings.

Discoid Lupus Erythematosus (DLE) is a chronic disease with a typical cutaneous involvement. This pathology rarely involves mucosa: oral cavity is interested in 20 percent of DLE patients. We describe a case of oral DLE in a 50-year-old woman with an anamnesis for autoimmune disorders.

[HLA (Human Leukocyte Antigens) and oral immunological diseases].

The immunologic, pathogenetic and clinical relationships between HLA antigens and oral immunologic diseases are described. The HLA typing is useful for an early diagnosis because it allows to single out the subjects at risk in a particular studied family.

Burning mouth syndrome (BMS): controlled open trial of the efficacy of alpha-lipoic acid (thioctic acid) on symptomatology.

Background: Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA), is a potent antioxidant mitochondrial coenzyme, the trometamol salt of thioctic acid that has been shown in clinical studies to be neuroprotective. This study examined the effect of ALA on the symptomatology of Burning mouth syndrome (BMS).

Subjects And Methods: Forty-two patients with BMS and no clinical or laboratory evidence of organic oral disease were divided into two groups (Test and Control) each of 21 subjects, matched for age and sex.

[Dental enamel hypoplasia in a group of celiac disease patients. Clinico-epidemiologic correlations].

Background: The aim of present study was to carry out a personal clinical-epidemiological research concerning a possible correlation between coeliac disease and enamel hypoplasia.

Materials And Methods: Forty-five patients of Cam-pania, aged between 2 and 26 years old, with a diagnosis of coeliac disease (diagnosis in accordance with recent protocol ESPGAN), were subjected to a careful dental examination: at the same time a control-group formed by 105 healthy subjects, of the same province, age- and sex-matched with coeliac patients was examined.

Results: The finding of enamel hypoplasias was more significant in coeliac patients (11 cases with a percentage of 2.