International Journal of Family Medicine & Healthcare
Open AccessEye Oculo-Orbital Disease Due to Dental Causes
Authors: Dumitrache Marieta, Manea M.
Abstract
The etiopathogenic mechanisms that generate ocular-orbital diseases due to dental causes are: infectious, aseptic inflammatory, reflex and allergic. Orbital and adnexal diseases of the eyeball due to dental causes, they are predominantly infectious and manifest clinically through: eyelid abscesses, dacryocystitis, orbital cellulitis, thrombophlebitis of the cavernous sinus, very rarely through septic ocular seeding, panophthalmia, endophthalmia (serious conditions often accompanied by the functional and anatomical loss of the eyeball). Ocular inflammations with a dental focus are much more frequent and present a varied ocular pathology: anterior uveitis, chorioretinitis, panuveitis, keratoconjunctivitis, retinal periphlebitis, optic neuropathies. By affecting the trigeminal nerve and oculomotor nerves IV, VI (predominantly) of the sympathetic and parasympathetic in the context of dental disease, lacrimation, blepharospasm, oculomotor paralysis can occur. Oculoorbital damage can be present during or after dental treatment. Eye diseases due to dental causes require appropriate ophthalmological treatment, associated with appropriate etiopathogenic odontogenic treatment. A complete and competent ophthalmological and dental clinical examination is important.
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