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Wiadomości Lekarskie 2019, tom LXXII, nr 5 cz II
INTRODUCTION
Expansion of alcoholic beverages at the contemporary
alcohol market, their
variety and easy availability, ob-
sessive advertising and the common tradition of alcohol
consumption among population are the causes of early
use of alcohol and alcoholism in children and adolescents
[1, 2, 3]
Alcoholism can equally be
assigned to mental and so-
matic diseases, since the polymorphism of the symptoms
of alcoholic disease asserts total affection of the body by
the effect of ethanol-containing substances [4].
The general pathological effect of alcohol on the body
is determined primarily by
the biochemical properties
of ethanol, which is a cytoplasmic poison with a strong
devastating effect [2]. The cytotoxic effect of alcohol
is the cause of frequent malignant degeneration of the
oral mucosa; therefore, patients with alcoholism are at
risk for the development
of oncological diseases, which
should be taken into account by the dentist during pro-
phylactic checkups [5]. In this regard,
the identification
of dental status in patients with alcohol dependence is
of therapeutic and preventive value, and the study of its
features is crucial.
THE AIM
The
paper was aimed at determination
of the features of
dental status in adolescents with alcohol dependence.
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