Original scientific paper
[The study of galvanic currents and oral pathologic alternations and symptoms in the mouth]
Krešimir Kraljević
; Zavod za mobilnu protetiku, Stomatološki fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Ana Cekić-Arambašin
; Zavod za bolesti usta, Stomatološkii fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Sanja Grabarević
; Zavod za bolesti usta, Stomatološkii fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Abstract
During the last decade, considerable attention has been paid to the
intraorally generated currents and their supposed side-effects. As this phenomenon iis quite frequently associated with various discomforts experienced by the patients, both stomatologists and physicians encounter this problem in their routine. The present study was carried out in the total sample of 36 subjects. The study group (20 subjects) consisted of patients With oral diseases and symptoms, whereas the control group (16 subjects) had no pathologic alterations or symptoms in mouth. All the subjects har restorations with two or more metals in their mouth. In 65):)/o of the study group and 12,5% of the countrol group patients, the prosthetic restorations could not be considered completely satisfactory. Galvanic potentials exceeding 100 mV
were recorded in 84'% of the subjects with oral pathologic alternations and symptoms, and 12l3/o of the control group subjects. In the study group, the moist frequently found pathologic change was lichen ruber planus (25'%), whereas among symptoms, xerostomia (25 %) and dysgeusiia (bitter taste in 35°/o of the subjects) were most frequently
reported.
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Hrčak ID:
106807
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Publication date:
15.12.1986.
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