Review Article
Oral Cavity as an Extragastric Reservoir of Helicobacter pylori
Table 1
Summary of studies in which the presence of H. pylori in dental plaque was determined by rapid urease test/CLO test.
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No. | Author(s) | Year | Sample size | Prevalence of
H. pylori |
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Assumpção et al. [48] | 2010 | 99 adult patients who underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy | 52% | | 2 | Al Asqah et al. [35] | 2009 | Sixty-two dyspeptic patients with periodontitis and 39 dyspeptic patients without periodontitis | Overall-65%; 79% in periodontitis group and 43% in nonperiodontitis group | | 3 | Anand et al. [38] | 2006 | Sixty-five dyspeptic patients with H. pylori infection (cases) and 69 dyspeptic patients without H. pylori infection (control) | Overall-79.9%; 89% among cases and 71% among controls | | 4 | Chitsazi et al. [23] | 2006 | 88 dyspeptic patients-44 with H. pylori infection and 44 without H. Pylori infection | Overall 18.2%; 36.4% in HP positive group | | 5 | Choudhury et al. [22] | 2003 | 124 patients with dyspepsia | 43% | | 6 |
Gürbüz et al. [30] | 2003 | 75 dyspeptic patients | 91.7% | | 7 | Suk et al. [45] |
2002 | Sixty-five patients with dyspeptic symptoms | 100% | | 8 | Avcu et al. [21] | 2001 | 241 H. pylori positive patients with gastric histologic changes | 44.8% | | 9 |
Özdemir et al. [49] | 2001 | 81 dyspeptic patients | 79% | | 10 | Qureshi et al. [50] | 1999 | 60 dyspeptic patients | 50% | | 11 | Contractor et al. [51] | 1998 | 100 healthy subjects | 81% |
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