Oral findings in postmenopausal women attending dental hospital in Western part of India.

[oral submucous fibrosis]

To know the nature , incidence and severity of oral manifestations occurring in postmenopausal women .Oral changes were observed in 365 postmenopausal women and 365 age matched male individuals attending the department of Oral Medicine and Radiology . The patients were asked about complaints of dry mouth , taste and breath changes , mucosal and facial pain and were examined for oral changes such as ulceration , white and red lesions . The results obtained from the study were then correlated with various other similar studies .The important oral findings in postmenopausal women were mucosal burning /pain (25 .8 %), dry mouth (27 .1 %), altered taste (3 .6 %), altered breath (6 .3 %) and facial pain (3 .6 %). Oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF ) was significantly more common in males (5 .5 %) as compared to postmenopausal females (1 .9 %).Results from the present study reveal that oral symptoms are common problems in postmenopausal women . Postmenopausal patients showed significantly more oral changes than the control . These changes could be related to the hormone alterations . Therefore , dentists need to refer postmenopausal women with oral symptoms to a gynaecologist for more careful examinations and medical interventions if necessary . Key words :Menopause ; postmenopause ; xerostomia ; pallor ; oral changes .

Diseases
Validation

Diseases presenting "pain" symptom

achondroplasia

acute rheumatic fever

adrenal incidentaloma

adrenomyeloneuropathy

aniridia

aromatase deficiency

carcinoma of the gallbladder

cholangiocarcinoma

coats disease

congenital diaphragmatic hernia

congenital toxoplasmosis

cushing syndrome

cutaneous mastocytosis

cystinuria

dedifferentiated liposarcoma

dentin dysplasia

dracunculiasis

dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa

epidermolysis bullosa simplex

erdheim-chester disease

erythropoietic protoporphyria

esophageal adenocarcinoma

esophageal carcinoma

esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

fabry disease

familial mediterranean fever

focal myositis

hirschsprung disease

hodgkin lymphoma, classical

holt-oram syndrome

junctional epidermolysis bullosa

kabuki syndrome

kindler syndrome

lamellar ichthyosis

liposarcoma

locked-in syndrome

lymphangioleiomyomatosis

malignant atrophic papulosis

neuralgic amyotrophy

oligodontia

oral submucous fibrosis

papillon-lefèvre syndrome

phenylketonuria

pleomorphic liposarcoma

primary hyperoxaluria type 1

proteus syndrome

pyomyositis

scrub typhus

sneddon syndrome

systemic capillary leak syndrome

thoracic outlet syndrome

trochlear dysplasia

typhoid

von hippel-lindau disease

waldenström macroglobulinemia

well-differentiated liposarcoma

wolf-hirschhorn syndrome

This symptom has already been validated