Re: [cda-listserv] Infection outbreaks on teeth can cause 'alopecia areata' o...

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What's interesting is there is NO mention of the link between dental

problems, alopecia AND celiac disease. I have a girlfriend with celiac disease.

She's had strange dental enamel problems all her life. When she was finally

diagnosed with celiac, and realized her dental enamel issues were related, she

went to her dentist and pointed out " IF you ever see dental enamel like this

again, PLEASE refer your patient to get celiac tested - maybe they won't have

to

suffer for 20 years like I did! "

Jan Patenaude, RD

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Infection outbreaks on teeth can cause 'alopecia areata' or localized

hair loss

After odontological treatment, hair loss lessenses.

There is a close relationship between infection outbreaks on teeth and

the presence of alopecia areata or localized alopecia, a type of hair

loss which has an unknown origin. Alopecia areata starts with bald

patches on the scalp, and sometimes elsewhere on the body. The disease

occurs in males and females of all ages, and experts believe that it

affects 1 out 1000 people.

Research by professors José Gil Montoya and Cutando

Soriano, of the at the University of Granada, advises going to the

dentist when patients notice localized hair loss, in order to receive a

careful examination of their oral health.

“Alopecia areata is a dermatitis which presents the following signs: The

typical pattern is for one or more round bald patches to appear on the

scalp, in the beard, or in the eyebrows, or to undergo a loss of

eyelashes. Alopecia areata is thought to be an auto-immune diseaseâ€,

stated the researchers. Hair re-grows in most patients after several

months. However, in a quarter of all patients the condition recurs once

or more. According to professors at the UGR, the affected hair follicles

are not totally destroyed. Therefore, hair can grow back, although

patients who have already suffered from alopecia areata may have

recurrences.

Unpredictable development

Frequently, patients with alopecia areata have hairs with the shape of

an exclamation mark on the border of the bald patch. Hairs become weak

and fall out easily. Several studies suggest that alopecia areata has

unpredictable development: sometimes hair grows back within a few weeks,

but in some cases the disease progresses and can cause further hair loss

on scalp and body.

Until the research at the UGR, which establishes for the first time a

relationship between alopecia areata and dental disease, the origin of

this kind of hair loss was not well known. Hair-follicle tissue inflames

without cicatrisation. In alopecia areata, the affected hair follicles

are mistakenly attacked by the immune system. Some of the factors that

cause alopecia are: genetics, family history of alopecia, non-specific

immune reactions, specific auto-immune reactions of certain organs and

emotional stress.

“We have found that bald patches caused by tooth infection are not

always in the same place. They normally appear on a line projected from

the dental infection and can thus can be located on the face at the

level of the maxillary teeth, above a line through the lip-angle to the

scalp, beard, or even to the eyebrow. Nevertheless, they can also be

located far from infection outbreak.†Explained Gil Montoya and Cutando

Soriano.

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Reference

Prof. José Gil Montoya y Cutando Soriano. of the

University of Granada.

Phone: +34 958 249 025 and +34958 243 796.

Email: jagil@..., acutando@...

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