The Impact of the Dysbiosis Phenomena on Oral Biofilm for Psoriasis
Monson CA1*,
Monson ASC2, Cavaleti V3, Petri V4,
Atallah AN5
1Dental Surgeon licensed in Hospital
Dentistry. Coordination Nucleus at SOSBE Sector at Dermatology Departament,
Escola Paulista de Medicina EPM / UNIFESP, Brazil
2Master Student Pediatric Department.
Escola Paulista de Medicina EPM / UNIFESP. Research Assistent at SOSBE/
UNIFESP, Tutoring Extension Course Hospital Pedagogy Escola Paulista de
Medicina EPM / UNIFESP, Brazil
3Biomedicine Academic Trainee at SOSBE at
Departament Dermatology Escola Paulista de Medicina EPM / UNIFESP, Brazil
4Prof. Dr. Titular Departament
Dermatologia. Coordination Nucleus Saúde Oral e Sistêmica Sector SOSBE,
Departament Dermatologia, Escola Paulista de Medicina EPM / UNIFESP, Brazil
5Director Centro Cochrane Brazil, Centro
de Estudos de Saúde Baseada em Evidências e Avaliação Tecnológica em Saúde, São
Paulo, Brazil. Escola Paulista de Medicina EPM / UNIFESP, Brazil
*Corresponding author: Monson AC, Dental Surgeon licensed
in Hospital Dentistry, Coordination Nucleus at SOSBE Sector at Dermatology
Departament, Escola Paulista de Medicina EPM/UNIFESP, Brazil. Email: acmonson@uol.com.br
The scope of
this article is to address some important microbiological details, which help
to explain the observed dysbiosis oral phenomena in psoriasis. Psoriasis is a
complex inflammatory skin disease, also related to the high level of distress
and affects the mental health levels, with important practical implications,
such as levels of patient adherence to medical recommendations, difficult for
the adoption of healthy lifestyles, and loss of ability to maintain adequate personal
care, such as oral hygiene, which contribute to observed adverse outcomes in
the disease.
Under the
heading of Microbiology, the biofilms exist in all known ecosystems and within
certain parameters, it remains stable in relation to the environment that
contains them, the so-called ecological balance. However, under specific
conditions, the balance is disrupted and the biofilm population changes
significantly both qualitatively and quantitatively, what characterizes the
dysbiosis phenomena [1]. Dysbacteriosis is a clinical condition resulting from
the prolonged, uncontrolled and overlapping action of chemical, physical and /
or biological control agents of microbial populations that allow the entry and
fixation of agents originally foreign to that medium, leading to serious
systemic consequences.
The biofilms
are complex microbiological systems endowed with a high level of organization,
where their populations of different genera and species, maintains diverse
relationships types among themselves in function of specific characteristics
like environment, genetics, nutritional availability, protection, environmental
oxygen level, pH, and others resulting in microbial super populations endowed
with a high degree of virulence and pathogenicity, clearly evidenced by adverse
outcomes produced, such as episodes of refractoriness to established treatments
instituted for psoriasis [2]. The oral dysbiosis is the result of an important
parasitism, which when the patient has a competent immune activity, promotes activation
of the trigger of the local inflammatory component, that is to provoke
alterations in the supporting tissues of the dental organ in order to try to
contain, an evolution from infectious to systemic sepsis from the oral focus.
It is noteworthy that today these diseases are considered to be the result of
parasitism of the pathogenic microbiota, even though the dysbacterial and / or
dysbacteriotic dental biofilm does not, in principle, present protozoa, which
in practice is not uncommon. Often this inflammatory process is effective in
preventing the development of a generalized infection, yet it produces
insidious damage throughout the body, which will only become evident throughout
life. Including many phenomena related to oral dysbiosis, today it is known
that, to a large extent, they are also responsible for unsuccessful aging. This
picture becomes more dramatic when it happens in an organism that presents
chronic non-transmissible degenerative diseases, such as psoriasis. Although
intrinsic mechanisms are still poorly understood, clinical evidence indicates
that when present, diseases of the dental organs produce a significant
worsening of the skin lesions.
According to
a world consensus, when the Evidence Based Methodology is adopted, it made
possible to reach a level of knowledge that would be impossible to achieve in
the previous scientific paradigm, based on the Cartesian Logic [2]. For human
beings, according to Internal Medicine and Therapeutics principles has been
observed with high frequency in daily practice, patients evolve differently to
the assumptions of the pathophysiology known of the diseases that led them to
seek care, being biofilms in conditions of dysbiosis, one of the factors risk
more prevalent, and the implications with sepsis one of its more eloquent
clinical manifestations [2]. This is exactly what happens when the oral
implications for psoriasis, where oral biofilm in dysbiosis conditions, and its
management are analyze, from the perspective of the Oral and Systemic Health
Based on Evidence (SOSBE/SOHBE), one of the most important practical
implications, a new interdisciplinary field of knowledge organized from a
Cochrane Protocol Systematic Review and Metanalysis - Complementary Therapies
for Chronic Plaques Psoriasis [2,3].
Thus, for
many years, already it has been known, the existence of 7 basic conditions of
interaction between these two knowledge fields (Dentistry and Dermatology),
which are capable of resulting in up to 26 clinical scenarios, which, when
overlapping, explain the high prevalence of unexpected and unfavourable results
observed in the management of different clinical courses of psoriasis,
independently of the adopted algorithm. The clinical scenarios were classified
as 2 two key issues groups. A group related to the pathogenesis of psoriasis
and another group related to the causes or clinical implications of the
outcomes observed during the evolution of the disease, but always the oral
dysbiosis when present worsens all the clinical scenarios studied. [2,4]. Oral Echology
studies have brought important contributions not only to understanding the
impact of dental biofilm in a condition possessed, not only for the oral cavity
"per se" but the whole organism, according to specific studies in
Cardiology, in Neurology, in Gynecology / Obstetrics, Gastroenterology and more
recently in Dermatology [4,5].
Using
principles of specificity and sensitivity, not only for psoriasis but virtually
for all inflammatory dermatosis, it is important that patients be warned that
even small gingival bleeding observed during dental brushing, to spontaneous
and abundant bleeding, bad breath, gingival edema, putulent gingival
secretions, dental mobility and lymph node enlargement near the oral cavity are
strong indications of infectious processes in the tissues of the dental organ,
able to elicit important responses from immune activity and should be
interpreted as potential complicating clinical courses into adverse outcomes in
Dermatology. Following an Evidence-Based Health assumption (Haynes 5 Steps for
MBE) (Higgins 2011), after a systematic reviews and meta-analysis were
completed, it was conducted at the Sector (SOSBE), Psoriasis I Ambulatory,
Department of Dermatology, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of
São Paulo, Brazil, an observational study of semi-randomized sample, between
2013 and 2016 with a total of 343 patients with psoriasis and inflammatory
dermatoses under different treatment algorithms, and they were followed for 46
consecutive months. The therapeutic resource applied was, a set of procedures,
among us called, the SOSBE/ SOHBE Protocol for improvement clinical adherence
to medical recommendations, applied as co-interventions with conventional
treatments. One the most important issues from the study, was that about 96.2%
of the treated cases were observed in the presence of dental biofilm in the
condition of dysbiosis (periodontal disease + lingual sabur concomitant with
Psoriasis) until then, without any form of management [2].
The
SOSBE/SOHBE Protocol - Oral and Systemic Evidence-Based Health Protocol is
based on Complementary Therapies WHO - Hospital Dentistry, Oral Microbiology,
and Complementary Therapies NCCIH / NIH - Behavioral Medicine - Psychobiology -
Clinical Neurosciences, besides the incorporation of the principles of
Haptonomy and Neurodiversity. One of the most important aspects evidenced in
the project was the impact that the quantitative and qualitative changes of the
dental biofilm in the condition of dysbiosis/ disbacteriotic caused in the clinical
courses of the great majority of conventionally treated patients, where the
SOSBE / SOHBEprotocol started to be applied in a co-intervention regime. And
not only in cases of psoriasis, but also acne rosacea and hidradenitis
suppurativa. The most significant results were maintenance of conventional
medication dose in cases that before the application of the SOSBE/SOHBE
Protocol presented low responsiveness to the treatments and increased interval
between exacerbations. The SOSBE/SOHBE Protocol can be applied by any health
professional, as long as properly trained.
The follow-up
for assessment was done by dermatologists and dental surgeons, during the
period of outpatient care of the patient in the sector, and at the present
study least in 2 different times for each patient with 30 days intervals.
Thus, the
dental biofilm in the condition of dysbiosis / dysbacteriosis, is a microbial
community of high complexity of trophic cascade and constitutive elements that
maintain interrelated ecological relationships among them, endowed with a high
degree of virulence. However, in many cases, because these microorganisms have
been detected outside their primordial ecological niches, their action ends up
being poorly understood, however, as their presence was detected in the dental
biofilm, it is clear that there was a closure of the oro-fecal circuit, which
may have been caused by various factors. Examples are intestinal viruses and
some species of Gram + bacilli, composing the subgingival dental calculus.
Thus, among
the reports of microorganisms found in the biofilm under dysbiosis condition,
it is possible to cite uni protozoa and multicellular, bacteria such as cocci
and Gram+, bacilli resistant strains of alcohol and acid, aerobic
microorganisms, facultative anaerobic, strict anaerobic, spiral bacteria,
vibrios, filamentous bacteria, and fungi, yeasts of different species, viruses
of various kinds, especially those responsible for viral infections enteric,
dermotropic and respiratory, rickettsial, several species (PPLO) or Mycoplasma
different Taxon (genres, species and provenances) and prions, which maintains
interdependent relations and are endowed with a high degree of virulence. In
addition to the microorganisms mentioned in the ultra structure of the composition
of disbiosys oral biofilm also are host cells of different types, such as the
oral mucosal lining, erythrocyte debris, platelets, leukocytes, and
extracellular matrix collagen residue and other proteins such as fibrin,
remaining imuneglobulinas, hormones, digestive enzymes, sugars, lipids, mineral
salts and mainly consisting of calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, which contribute
to the rigid consistency tartar or dental calculus in both above portions as
their sub- gingival, and provides biofilm micro-organisms with conditions
including strict anerobiosis. With the increase in the qualitative and
quantitative complexity of the disbiotic / dysbacteriotic biofilm, the addition
of other substances such as the volatile derivatives of sulfur and nitrogen
that produce fetid odors elicit inflammatory responses. Studies show that when
dysbiosis / oral Dysbacteriosis affects a healthy body is able to elicit a set
of systemic inflammatory reactions that mobilize the defensive elements of the
blood for convergence in the area of the jaw, then settling down in order to
contain the destructive advance dental biofilm, aggressive periodontitis, so
that a generalized infection does not occur at the expense of great efforts of
the immune activity and high energetic expenses.
The evidence points to the relevance of the topic of dysbiosis / oral dysbacteriosis as an important modifier of clinical course in several settings. In a previous report of the first decade of the present century, the WHO had pointed out the growth in the sudden admission in Intensive Care Units, in several countries, of patients originally not eligible for these treatments. The suspicions of the sudden aggravation are that they have been infectious processes in the oral cavity, frequently associated with the periodontal diseases Among the risk factors involved in these outcomes, oral dysbiosis / dysbacteriosis occupies an important position, which contributed to the (WHO) reclassification of the estimated risk margins of dentistry from, originally low to medium, an index similar to that of orthopaedics. According to the report the prevalence of advanced periodontitis in the United States is about 12% of the adult population [2].
Thus, as conclusion of
the analysis, it is important to state that the findings obtained in our last
observational study are similar to the findings of one of the 3 systematic
reviews that were part of our preliminary research, developed within the
original project of Protocol:
Complementary Therapies for Chronic Plaques of Psoriasis (Monson 2014), and
titled Periodontal Aspects of Psoriasis: A Systematic Review (Monson 2016a),
where the evidence pointed to the scenario in which periodontal diseases worsen
a previously manifested psoriasis [4]. 830 studies of different research
designs were evaluated. Ten studies were recovered between case-control,
cohort, which totalled 292,461 participants. Of the oral diseases, those that
affect the periodontium are most related to the worsening of psoriasis.
Periodontal destruction (periodontitis) is usually a consequence of
inflammatory destruction as a result of poor oral hygiene and subsequent
accumulation of dental biofilm in the condition of dysbiosis / dysbacteriosis,
present in children, adolescents and adults. Many general studies have shown
that patients with psoriasis tend to experience more bone loss than in relation
to sex and age matched controls [4]. Based on the original research project, it
is possible to affirm that one more element was incorporated into the
pathophysiology of psoriasis: the impact of oral health status on the evolution
of the disease. This can be summarized as "the loss of body and oral
well-being influence each other and affect the mental state of individuals by
impregnating them with a heightened sense of discomfort as well as feelings of
illness and distress in a growing vicious circle of pathogenicity”. Present in
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