Connotation of Oro-Dental Disorders with Food & Social Customs
Keywords:
Chalia, Naswar, Oral Diagnosis, Oral Disorders, Tooth DecayAbstract
Objective: To evaluate the existing correlation between Oro-Dental disease occurrences with dietary and social
habits among the local dental patients.
Methodology:This 30-day cross sectional study was conducted at Baqai Dental College Hospital Outpatient Clinic,
Karachi, using pre- designed questionnaires. During the study, age, gender, types of oral disorders (identified by
calibrated dental professional), and dietary preferences were looked. After informed consent and ethical approval,
prospective and consecutive data of 115 subjects was collected and 15 were excluded because of inconclusive
pathological oro-dental condition.
Results: Oral lesions were reported as dental pain with bleeding, dental pain with swelling, dental pain only or
dental pain with both swelling and bleeding. Only 32% participants admitted to consume Naswar/ Chalia and
smoking. 21 % patients admitted to consume all types of foods. 67 % were suffering from tooth decay. Naswar/
chalia eaters and smokers presented with pain alone, and pain with swelling. Surprisingly those who claimed vegetable
consumption were noted to have more dental decay as well as pain.
Conclusions: This study suggested that in the absence of dominant abnormal social habits and food, suffering from
Oro-Dental disorders may be related to poor quality of vegetables, water, hosts characteristics or activated HPA
axis in the development of pathogenic dental process.
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