Table 1.
Oral manifestations in patients with spa and healthy controls
| Characteristics | Patients (N = 80) | Healthy controls (N = 52) | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Oral manifestation | |||||
| Inflammatory lymph node manifestation | 5 | 78.0 | 1 | 2.0 | 0.900 |
| Oral lesions associated with IBD | 0.050† | ||||
| Present | 29 | 37.0 | 28 | 56.0 | |
| Nonpresent | 49 | 63.0 | 22 | 44.0 | |
| Indeterminate | 2 | ||||
| Type of associated lesion | |||||
| Angular Cheilitis | 2 | 2.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.200 |
| Perioral erythema with scaling | 1 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.300 |
| Aphthous stomatitis | 3 | 3.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.091 |
| Gingivitis | 43 | 55.0 | 21 | 42.0 | 0.001† |
| Candidiasis | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2.0 | 0.300 |
| Indeterminate | 2 | ||||
| Oral lesions nonassociated with IBD | 0.700 | ||||
| Nonpresent | 58 | 74.0 | 39 | 81.0 | |
| Physiological pigmentation | 2 | 2.6 | 3 | 6.2 | |
| Traumatic ulcer | 7 | 9.0 | 2 | 4.2 | |
| Traumatic fibroma/IFH | 2 | 2.6 | 1 | 2.1 | |
| Leukoedema | 1 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Subprosthetic stomatitis | 1 | 1.3 | 2 | 4.2 | |
| Nicotinic stomatitis | 1 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Palatine/lingual torus | 3 | 3.8 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Amalgam tattoo | 1 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Mucocele | 1 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Traumatic petechiae | 1 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Leukoplakia | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2.1 | |
| Indeterminate | 2 | 4 | |||
IBD, inflammatory bowel disease; PD, presumptive diagnosis; IFH, inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia
†Statistically significant difference (Fisher exact test)