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Gingival effects of prescription medications among adult dental patients
Author(s) -
McClain Deedee L.,
Bader James D.,
Daniel Susan J.,
Sams Darlene H.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
special care in dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.328
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1754-4505
pISSN - 0275-1879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1754-4505.1991.tb00806.x
Subject(s) - medicine , medical prescription , dentistry , pharmacology
The relationship between self‐reported medication use (exposure to one or more drugs with anticipated gingival effect — antidepressants, diuretics, antihypertensives, hormones) and four measures of gingival conditions (plaque index, gingival index, calculus index, maximum CPITN score) was examined among 594 patients in 35 dental practices in two North Carolina counties. Patients with long‐term medication use were compared to patients without long‐term use on four measures of gingival condition. When controlling for sex and age within age group, medication use was a significant predictor (P < 0.05) for elevated gingival and plaque index scores among the white less than 65 group. For the white 65+ group (n = 90), medication use was not a significant predictor for any index score