ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Prognostic significance of oral fluid fluoride measurement in acute pericoronitis
1 Central Research Institute of Dentistry and Maxillofacial Surgery, Moscow, Russia
2 Omsk State Pedagogical University, Omsk, Russia
3 Omsk State Medical University, Omsk, Russia
Correspondence should be addressed: Andrey S. Korshunov
Kosareva, 34, Omsk, 644043, Russia; ur.liam@885081_k_yerdna
Author contribution: Vagner VD — planning of the study, literature analysis, data interpretation; Sarf EA — biochemical research, statistical analysis; Belskaya LV — planning of the study, biochemical research, manuscript preparation; Korshunov AS — planning of the study, literature analysis, data interpretation, collection of clinical samples, manuscript preparation; Kuryatnikov KN — collection of clinical samples, data interpretation, manuscript preparation; Bondar AA, Meloyan AD, Maksimenko KA, Kasiy MN — sample preparation, data analysis.
Compliance with ethical standards: the study was approved by ethical review board of the Omsk State Medical University (Protocol № 113 of 26 November 2019); all participants or their representatives provided informed consent for participation in the study.
Oral fluid is a valuable substrate for assessing dental health and other aspects of physical status. New methods for early diagnosis and prognosis of dental diseases on the basis of oral fluid composition are in constant demand. Excessive fluoride concentrations, often oversighted by dental therapists, negatively affect organs and tissues of the oral cavity. This study aimed at development and approbation of a method for reliable measurement of fluoride ions in oral fluid by capillary electrophoresis to be used in patients with dental diseases. The fluoride ion concentrations were measured in health (2.16 ± 0.48 mg/L), in isolated acute pericoronitis (15.2 ± 2.7 mg/L) and in acute pericoronitis combined to multiple caries (18.9 ± 4.2 mg/L). By post-operative day 3, fluoride levels in the group with isolated acute pericoronitis dropped to normal values (2.28 ± 0.52 mg/L), whereas in the group with acute pericoronitis combined to multiple caries fluoride levels remained high (8.7 ± 1.9 mg/L; р < 0.0001). The developed protocol is efficient for studying fluoride ion concentrations in isolated and combined dental diseases.
Keywords: pericoronitis, multiple caries, fluorides, oral fluid, capillary electrophoresis