Acar M, Türkcan İ, Özdaş T, Bal C, Cingi C
ENT Department,Yunus Emre State Hospital,Eskişehir,Turkey.
Department of Prosthodontics,Faculty of Dentistry,Gazi University,Ankara,Turkey.
J Laryngol Otol. 2015 Jan;129(1):68-72. doi: 10.1017/S0022215114003296.
Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome can lead to unhealthy open-mouth breathing. We investigated the possible relationship between obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome and dental health. We also evaluated other clinical factors that may affect oral health.
We measured sleep using polysomnography and determined the apnoea-hypopnoea index for a total of 291 patients. We also recorded the demographic data, duration of snoring complaints, educational status and income levels for our patient cohort; finally, we calculated the decayed, missing and filled teeth index.
Forty-one patients presented with primary snoring (control group) and 250 patients (study group) presented with mild, moderate and severe obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome. We found no correlation between obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome severity and the decayed, missing and filled teeth index (p = 0.057). We also found no correlation between the apnoea-hypopnoea and decayed, missing and filled teeth indexes. Age and the duration of snoring complaints were positively correlated with the decayed, missing and filled teeth index while educational status and income levels were negatively correlated (p < 0.001).
Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome does not negatively affect oral and dental health.
阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停综合征可导致不健康的张口呼吸。我们研究了阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停综合征与口腔健康之间的可能关系。我们还评估了其他可能影响口腔健康的临床因素。
我们使用多导睡眠图测量睡眠，并确定了总共291名患者的呼吸暂停低通气指数。我们还记录了患者队列的人口统计学数据、打鼾主诉的持续时间、教育程度和收入水平；最后，我们计算了龋失补牙指数。
41名患者表现为原发性打鼾（对照组），250名患者（研究组）表现为轻度、中度和重度阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停综合征。我们发现阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停综合征的严重程度与龋失补牙指数之间没有相关性（p = 0.057）。我们还发现呼吸暂停低通气指数与龋失补牙指数之间没有相关性。年龄和打鼾主诉的持续时间与龋失补牙指数呈正相关，而教育程度和收入水平呈负相关（p < 0.001）。
阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停综合征不会对口腔和牙齿健康产生负面影响。
