Oral health status in children with familial Mediterranean fever

[...]the studies about oral findings in FMF patients are scarce, and the real frequency of aphthous mouth ulcer remains unknown. [...]we aimed to evaluate oral health status and oral hygiene habits of the pediatric FMF patients and the effect of oral and dental health throughout the course of the disease. ICDAS-II is a clinical scoring system which allows detection and assessment of caries activity.11,12 The PUFA index which is used for assessing the presence of oral conditions resulting from untreated caries, records the presence of severely decayed teeth with visible pulpal involvement (P/p), ulceration caused by dislocated tooth fragments (U/u), fistula (F/f) and abscess (A/a).13 Plaque index estimates the status of oral hygiene by measuring dental plaque and gingival index (GI) scores gingival inflammation.14,15 Statistical analyses Statistical analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics Version 23.0. According to ICDAS II index, 54.3% (n= 108) of the patients had a score of 5 and 29.1% (n= 58) had a score of 2 (score 5 presents distinct cavity with visible dentin and score 2 presents distinct visual changes in enamel). According to the PUFA/pufa index, in 12 years 2 teeth had "P score" (2.3%) and only 1 tooth had "F score" (1.2%), in 6-11 years who were in mixed dentition 9 teeth (9.8%) had "p score", 7 teeth (7.6%) had "f score" and 4 teeth had (4.3%) "a score" resulting from untreated caries.