Open AccessInfluence of underactive thyroid gland on the dental health of elderly patients
Author(s) -
С. В. Дьяченко,
И В Фирсова,
А Т Яковлев,
Л. М. Гаврикова,
Сергей Крайнов,
Александра Попова
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
tihookeanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1609-1175
DOI - 10.34215/1609-1175-2020-2-14-18
Subject(s) - thyroid , medicine , endocrine system , pathological , elderly people , population , thyroid disease , disease , gerontology , dentistry , pediatrics , environmental health , hormone
The review covering modern concepts of the influence of underactive thyroid on dental health of elderly patients. According to WHO, today about 600 million of population are people over 60 years old. By the beginning of 2021, according to the Federal State Statistics Service estimates, the ratio of people of working age out of total population will increase up to 27 %. High prevalence of dental diseases among elderly population is primarily caused by the fact that both physiological and pathological changes occur in the maxillofacial system with age. Disease of thyroid dominates among endocrine diseases. Elderly people are one of the most difficult to diagnose groups of patients with hypothyroidism. There is enough data on the presence and characteristics of the course of dental diseases in both the elderly and patients with hypothyroidism. However, the features of diseases of the hard tissues of teeth in elderly patients with hypothyroidism are not adequately addressed in the available literature. Thus, this issue requires further study.