Impacto da depressão na condição bucal de pacientes portadores de síndrome metabólica: um estudo preliminar

The metabolic syndrome (MS) is a set of metabolic, anthropometric and hemodynamic abnormalities. Dental caries and periodontitis were evaluated in morbidly obese with MS and depression. This transversal and analytic study was composed by 56 patients divided in two groups: MS without depression (GSD=34) and MS with depression (GCD=22). To evaluate dental caries, it was used the ICDAS and CPO-D indexes and to evaluate periodontitis it was used the criteria of the CDC Periodontal Disease Surveillance Workgroup. In the statistical analysis it was used: Poisson distribution, log link function and Multiple logistic regression with binomial distribution. There was no difference between the both groups regarding dental caries and periodontitis. It is concluded that patients with MS with or without depression do not have significant difference for dental caries and periodontitis. However, patients with MS and depression show higher tooth loss (p=0,0388). New studies should investigate the relationship between MS, depression and tooth loss.