Title

Oral health assessment in asthmatic children: An observational study

Authors

Padmanidhi Agarwal¹, Ashi Chug², Lata Goyal^3,*, Kanav Jain4, Aakash Gupta³, Shailesh Kumar⁵, Priyanka Mishra⁶ & Kamini Kiran⁵

Affiliation

¹Department of Dentistry, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India; ²Department of Dentistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, India; ³Department of Dentistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bathinda, India; ⁴Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Chandra Dental College and Hospital, Safedabad, Lucknow, India; ⁵Department of Dentistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur, India; ⁶Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Institute of Dental Studies and Technology, Modinagar, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Padmanidhi Agarwal - E-mail: padmanidhi.agarwal@gmail.com

Ashi Chug - E-mail: ashichug@gmail.com
Lata Goyal - E-mail: latagoyal83@gmail.com
Kanav Jain - E-mail: kanav288@gmail.com
Aakash Gupta - E-mail: guptaaakash95@gmail.com

Shailesh Kumar - E-mail: way2shailesh@gmail.com

 Priyanka Mishra - E-mail: mishra.priyanka367@gmail.com

Kamini Kiran - E-mail: dr.kaminijha@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received February 1, 2026; Revised February 28, 2026; Accepted February 28, 2026, Published February 28, 2026

Abstract

Dental caries and bronchial asthma are related, but the effect of asthma severity and medication on oral health has conflicting evidence in the literature. Therefore, it is of interest to evaluate oral health indices in the outpatient Department of Dentistry, over a period of 2 years, in 1-17-year-olds undergoing treatment for asthma. Out of 168 children (115 male, 53 female), 13-17 year olds showed highest DMFT and Plaque index. Out of 77.5% of children with greater severity of asthma and duration >1yr, 61% children showed poor oral hygiene and signs of gingival inflammation. Children with chronic asthma a year ago had a higher mean deft/DMFT and also, significant proportional increase in mean deft/DMFT with age was observed. Oral hygiene was poorer and proportional to caries incidence and inhaler usage under-scoring importance of oral health maintenance after inhaler usage

Keywords

Caries, β 2 agonist inhaler oral hygiene

Citation

Agarwal et al. Bioinformation 22(2): 1080-1084 (2026)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.