1999
Relationship of Stress, Distress, and Inadequate Coping Behaviors to Periodontal Disease
Abstract: We find that psychosocial measures of stress associated with financial strain and distress manifest as depression, are significant risk indicators for more severe periodontal disease in adults in an age-adjusted model in which gender (male), smoking, diabetes mellitus, B. forsythus, and P. gingivalis are also significant risk indicators. Of considerable interest is the fact that adequate coping behaviors as evidenced by high levels of problem-based coping, may reduce the stress-associated risk. Further studies…
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“…Genco et al found that stress, revealed as financial strain, and depression were associated with greater levels of clinical attachment loss or higher levels of alveolar bone loss, 2 independently measured but correlated measures of destructive periodontal disease. 4 The result of our study was in consistent to the case control studies done by Moss et al, 20 Vettore et al, 11 and Saletu et al 23 The differences were in the definition of periodontitis criteria. Moss used the criteria given by Machtei et al 24 for established periodontitis.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 90%
“…Genco et al found that stress, revealed as financial strain, and depression were associated with greater levels of clinical attachment loss or higher levels of alveolar bone loss, 2 independently measured but correlated measures of destructive periodontal disease. 4 The result of our study was in consistent to the case control studies done by Moss et al, 20 Vettore et al, 11 and Saletu et al 23 The differences were in the definition of periodontitis criteria. Moss used the criteria given by Machtei et al 24 for established periodontitis.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 90%
“…The association between depressive symptoms and periodontitis observed in this study corroborates with previous findings (Genco et al., ; Khambaty & Stewart, ; Park et al., ). There are two proposed pathways that can possibly explain this association.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 93%
“…However, in our study, objective findings as well as subjective findings were significantly different between participants with and without lifetime depression. Our findings are consistent with previous studies showing that depression is associated with poor oral health status, including subjective temporomandibular joint problems (45) and periodontal disease (12,(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23). Depression could cause temporomandibular joint symptoms due to muscular tension (45).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 93%
