Those who have had surgical obesity treatment have a higher risk of dental caries than before surgery. They also often experience a general decline in oral health.
Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc.Oct 31 2023 This has been shown by a thesis at the University of Gothenburg.
"Around 5,000 cases of obesity surgery are performed each year in Sweden alone, and the trend is increasing," says Negin Taghat, who has defended her doctoral thesis at the Institute of Odontology at the University of Gothenburg's Sahlgrenska Academy, and who works as a dentist for the Swedish Public Dental Service in Region Västra Götaland. "We were therefore interested in seeing whether there is any change in the oral health of these patients after surgery.
Another example relates to deeper caries lesions in the dentine, with an average pre-treatment initial value of 4.3 lesions. Two years after treatment, individuals in the surgery group had an average of 6.4 such lesions while those in the medical treatment group had 4.9.
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