Open AccessDo HIV patients have mandibular osteoporotic alterations? A mandibular cortical index case-control study
Author(s) -
Aline Yukari Nagai,
Lucas Morita,
Luciana Munhoz,
Emiko Saito Arita
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
brazilian dental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 2178-6011
DOI - 10.14295/bds.2021.v24i1.2157
Subject(s) - medicine , radiography , osteoporosis , dentistry , mandible (arthropod mouthpart) , panoramic radiograph , bone mineral , mann–whitney u test , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , cortical bone , surgery , pathology , biology , botany , family medicine , genus
Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate mandibular osteoporotic alterations in patients with HIV infection in comparison to non-HIV-infected patients using panoramic radiographs. Material and Methods: 26 HIV-infected patients and 142 non-HIV-infected patients (control group) were included in this study. Panoramic radiographs of the participants were assessed considering mandibular cortical index (MCI). Non-parametric comparisons between groups were performed, using Mann-Whitney test, at a level significance level of p= 0.05. Results: HIV-infected patients presented lower bone mineral density (BMD) at mandible, assessed by MCI in panoramic radiographs when compared to non-HIV-infected patients. The medication intake of HIV-infected patients was highly heterogeneous and could not be associated to the low BMD presented in the mandibular cortex. Conclusions: HIV-infected patients may present lower mandibular BMD than non-HIV-infected patients. KeywordsPanoramic radiograph; osteoporosis; bone mineral density; HIV.