FACTORES QUE CONDICIONAN LA ENFERMEDAD PERIODONTAL EN INDIVIDUOS CON SÍNDROME DE DOWN

Periodontal disease represents a disequilibrium between factors such as causes and the host at the dento gingival union. Down syndrome individuals present systemic alterations as well as clinical ones which help the outcome of periodontal disease, especially acute ulceronecrotic gingivitis and rapidly progressive periodontitis. The causes of outcome are due to immune alterations, especially by T cells, thyroid dysfunction, acute lymphocyte leukemia, genetic alterations with facial and oral characteristics, and growth anomalies; microbiological alterations, poor oral hygiene. The revision of factors that cause periodontal disease in individuals with Down syndrome, state a predisposition to the disease itself in which genetic and immune factors are the main precursors of this rapidly progressive disease, and microbiological factors as well as hygiene act like contributive to the outcome and progression as external factors. The monograph work was made through bibliographical sources obtaining a revision about the factors that condition the periodontal disease in Down syndrome individuals.

• Autores: Delgado V., Erika; Díaz P., Nydia Esperanza; Chacón U., Carmen Mariana; Delgado V., Rafael; Flórez M., Luisa Teresa
• Fecha de publicación: 2018
• Institución: Universidad Santo Tomás
• Repositorio: Repositorio Institucional USTA
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.usta.edu.co:11634/37185
• Acceso en línea: http://revistas.ustabuca.edu.co/index.php/USTASALUD_ODONTOLOGIA/article/view/1896; http://hdl.handle.net/11634/37185
• License: Derechos de autor 2018 UstaSalud