Article type: Letter to Editor
Article
title: Dental
health and epilepsy: important but too often ignored
Journal: Ibnosina
Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Year: 2020
Authors: Jamir Pitton Rissardo, Ana Letícia Fornari
Caprara
E-mail: jamirrissardo@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Oral health in individuals with epilepsy is an important topic but it is often forgotten or less highlighted among other features that the patients have and particularly when there is neurodevelopment impairment such as in the case reported by Fathalla and Salman. A recent study done in Poland found that the majority of epileptic patients did not have regular dental checkups. When the group was divided into rural and urban individuals, the authors found that rural patients had worse oral health. In this context, this recent study underscores the importance of increasing the regular dental care availability even in small towns of developed countries. We believe that this has probably occurred due to both financial reasons and the low number of clinics available in the studied region.
Keywords: Oral, dental, epilepsy, neurodevelopment
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DOI
10.4103/ijmbs.ijmbs_29_20
Citation
Rissardo
JP, Caprara AL. Dental health and epilepsy: important but too often ignored. Ibnosina J Med Biomed Sci 2020;12:139-40.
