Prevalence of Oral Findings in Adult Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: A Cross-sectional Study

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1 Oral Medicine and Periodontology Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University, Egypt

2 Oral Medicine and Periodontology Department, Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine, Ahram Canadian University, Egypt

3 Internal Medicine and Nephrology Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

4 Oral Medicine & Periodontology Department, Faculty of Dentistry Cairo University Egypt

Abstract

Aim: The study assesses the prevalence of oral findings among a sample of Egyptian population with chronic kidney disease and analyze the oral findings at pre-dialysis and end stage renal disease.
Methodology: 225 participants were interviewed filling a questionnaire followed by oral examination and the findings were reported. The data were statistically analyzed; continuous variables were expressed by mean ± standard deviation & median (range), the categorical variables were expressed by number (percentage).
Results: Prevalence of oral findings was 95.1% across all patients. The highest was detected in G5 undergoing dialysis (98.6%). The most recorded findings were tongue coating (78.7%), dry fissured lip (24.9%), then purpura (16.4%). Patients under hemodialysis were at risk of being HCV infected.
Conclusions: Egyptian CKD patients are prone to oral problems according to the disease stage, medications used and dialysis status. The findings are attributed to uremia, xerostomia and medications. Besides of poor oral hygiene was detected in all the study participants.

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