Fenotipos de los pacientes con síndrome de Down comprometidos periodontalmente. Parte 1 (original) (raw)

Down’s syndrome appears like a chromosomal alteration that comes from the result of excess in genetic material; this includes a variety of physical and mental problems such as: health issues like, ear and eye problems, digestive, also mental illnesses, thyroid mal functioning and esqueletal issues such as: over sized head, or very small, over sized eyes, face and other body parts, sometimes they show hands with very short fingers sometimes they just have a single articulation in the fingers. The severity of these issues is different in every person. The periodontal inflammation is severe in almost every patient with Down’s syndrome due to the deficiency of the immune system. In different studies around the world it was probed that the patients with Down’s syndrome are more susceptible to present periodontal problems for the deficient immune system which bring this patients for a host more susceptible to all kinds of pathogenic bacteria, that take care of fill the tissues and bring t...