Original scientific paper
Systemic diseases and local irritations in the etiology of oral lichen
Milutin Dobrenić
; Zavod za bolesti usta Stomatološkog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb
Ana Cekić-Arambašin
; Zavod za bolesti usta Stomatološkog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb
Abstract
The role of systemic diseases and local irritative factors in the etiology of oral lichen has been studied in subjects with manifest signs of this oral disease and compared to subjects with clinically intact oal mucosa and with symptoms of stomatopyrosis. Special attention was paid to the effects of liver and pancreas diseases, and the humoral immunity of the examinees' was determined. The local lesions found during the first oral examinations in both groups of subjects were subjected to laboratory analyses. In the subjects with lichen the incidence of mechanical and galvanic irritations was higher than in the other study group, which finding seems to point to an interaction between these local irritative factors and systemic disorders in the etiology of this disease. The immune responses of the examinees with oral lichen showed no significant deviations from normal values.
Keywords
Systemic diseases; irritations; oral lichen
Hrčak ID:
118182
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Publication date:
15.6.1985.
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