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Psychiatria Danubina, Vol. 33 No. suppl 4, 2021.

Conference paper

ALCOHOL ABUSE IN THE DENTAL PATIENT AND TEMPOROMANDIBULAR DISORDER CAUSED BY TRAUMA

Tomislav Badel orcid id orcid.org/0000-0001-5872-1132 ; Department of Removable Prosthodontics, School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivana Savić Pavičin orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-5210-1765 ; Department of Dental Anthropology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Sandra Kocijan Lovko ; Psychiatry Clinic Sveti Ivan, Zagreb, Croatia
Dijana Zadravec ; Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Clinical Hospital Center "Sestre milosrdnice", Zagreb, Croatia
Sandra Anić Milošević orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-2641-2364 ; Department of Orthodontics, School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Andreja Carek orcid id orcid.org/0009-0007-7337-3069 ; Department of Fixed Prosthodontics, School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

The aim of the paper was to describe the multidimensional character of alcoholism and its effects on oral health, with a review of
the relation between the traumatogenic factor of temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) and bruxism development. The difference
between moderate drinking and the development of alcohol addiction which leads to alcoholism-related medical, social, legal and
economic issues is not always clear. Alcoholism is often hidden within the private and wider social framework of a patient. Oral
diseases are easy to notice in recorded alcoholics as well as in, for example, smokers. TMDs consist of a disorder of masticatory
muscles and/or a disorder of temporomandibular joint (TMJ). Since the traumatogenic factor of individuals under the influence of
alcohol is clearly evident, it can potentially become an initializing factor of TMJ disorder's clinical signs and symptoms development.
A modern approach to the etiopathogenesis is to include the multifactorial model, that is, combinations of potential factors with
various individual importances. In everyday dental practice, co-morbidities of oral diseases and alcoholism are expected more often,
as well as oral diseases with their etiopathogenesis partially related to alcohol use.

Keywords

alcoholism; oral health; temporomandibular joint; trauma; bruxism

Hrčak ID:

271849

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/271849

Publication date:

19.10.2021.

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