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Abstract
Background
Eating disorders are associated with the highest rates of morbidity and mortality of any mental disorders among adolescents. The failure to recognize their early signs can compromise a patient's recovery and long-term prognosis. Tooth erosion has been reported as an oral manifestation that might help in the early detection of eating disorders.
Objectives
The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to search for scientific evidence regarding the following clinical question: Do eating disorders increase the risk of tooth erosion?
Methods
An electronic search addressing eating disorders and tooth erosion was conducted in eight databases. Two independent reviewers selected studies, abstracted information and assessed its quality. Data were abstracted for meta-analysis comparing tooth erosion in control patients (without eating disorders) vs. patients with eating disorders; and patients with eating disorder risk behavior vs. patients without such risk behavior. Combined odds ratios (ORs) and a 95% confidence interval (CI) were obtained.
Results
Twenty-three papers were included in the qualitative synthesis and assessed by a modified version of the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Fourteen papers were included in the meta-analysis. Patients with eating disorders had more risk of tooth erosion (OR = 12.4, 95%CI = 4.1–37.5). Patients with eating disorders who self-induced vomiting had more risk of tooth erosion than those patients who did not self-induce vomiting (OR = 19.6, 95%CI = 5.6–68.8). Patients with risk behavior of eating disorder had more risk of tooth erosion than patients without such risk behavior (Summary OR = 11.6, 95%CI = 3.2–41.7).
Citation: Hermont AP, Oliveira PAD, Martins CC, Paiva SM, Pordeus IA, Auad SM (2014) Tooth Erosion and Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE 9(11): e111123. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111123
Editor: Sompop Bencharit, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America
Received: June 18, 2014; Accepted: September 19, 2014; Published: November 7, 2014
Copyright: © 2014 Hermont et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Data Availability: The authors confirm that all data underlying the findings are fully available without restriction. All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files.
Funding: This study was supported by the Brazilian Coordination of Higher Education (CAPES), State of Minas Gerais Research Foundation (FAPEMIG), the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa da UFMG (PRPq/UFMG). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Introduction
The incidence of eating disorders (EDs) has increased over the past decade, both in males and females [1]. These conditions are associated with significant functional impairment and serious physical and psychological consequences due to an excessive preoccupation with body weight or shape. The mortality and morbidity rates associated with EDs are among the highest of any mental disorders [2].
Medical complications from EDs may affect any organ and be life-threatening [3]. Tooth erosion (TE) has been considered an oral manifestation of EDs associated with vomiting practices [3]–[6]. TE is a complex and multifactorial condition characterized by a progressive and irreversible loss of tooth structure due to a chemical process without bacterial involvement. It is clinically detectable as thinner enamel with chamfered ridges, cupped cusp tips and grooved incisal edges, sometimes with dentine exposure [7], [8].
Dentists usually monitor their patients on a regular basis, sometimes throughout their childhood and adolescence. Therefore, they may be the first health professionals to suspect EDs, due to their oral implications, contributing to the patient's early referral to specific treatment [3], [9]. Nevertheless, even with the increasing prevalence of EDs, the causal effect between these EDs and TE has not been thoroughly discussed in literature.
Hill's criteria of causation [10] must be considered in contemporary epidemiology and consist of nine items: strength of association, consistency, specificity, temporality, dose response, experimental evidence, biological plausibility, coherence, and analogy [11].
An evaluation of Hill's criteria of causation applied to the possible causal relationship between EDs and TE suggests specificity between both conditions (patients who suffer from EDs may present TE), temporality (the cause – EDs – occur before the consequence – TE), biological plausibility (vomiting practices related to the EDs causes an acid attack to tooth enamel), coherence (one cause is specific to one effect), and analogy (other diseases or exposures, such as acidic food or gastroesophageal reflux can cause TE).
Nevertheless, all the points raised before have to be systematically discussed and analyzed before drawing inferential causal conclusions. Furthermore, it is important to evaluate the strength of evidence of such an association and of the dose-response relationship, and search for experimental evidence. The aim of the present systematic review and meta-analysis was to search for scientific evidence of the following clinical question: Do EDs increase the risk of TE?
Materials and Methods
Search Strategy
The inclusion criteria for this systematic review were: epidemiological studies (cross-sectional, case-control, cohort and clinical trials) concerning etiological factors and/or the prevalence of TE and its association to any type of EDs (bulimia, anorexia, binge-eating, dysmorphic body disorder, vomiting, hyperphagia) in humans (Checklist S1 presents the PRISMA checklist for systematic reviews).
The exclusion criteria were: unrelated epidemiological studies (other outcome rather than TE), reviews, studies reporting vomiting habits not related to eating disorders, case reports/case series/letters to the editor, laboratorial studies (in vitro studies, extracted teeth, fossils), studies reporting dental treatment, dental materials, knowledge concerning TE, epidemiological studies that did not associate EDs with TE, studies with self-report of TE and infeasibility of extracting data.
The search was conducted in May 2011 and updated in June 2014 by three reviewers (APH, PADO and CCM) in eight different databases: MEDLINE through Pubmed (http://www/pubmed.gov), Web of Science (http://www.isiknowledge.com), Cochrane Library (http://www.cochrane.org/index.htm), Clinical Trials (http://www.clinicaltrials.gov), Current Controlled Trials (http://www.controlled-trials.com), The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (http://www.nice.org.uk), and Lilacs and the Brazilian Library of Dentistry (BBO) through Virtual Health Library (Bireme, Latin America) (www.bireme.br). No restrictions were placed on language or year of publication.
The following search strategy was used in the MEDLINE, Web of Science and Cochrane: ((non-carious cervical lesions OR non-carious cervical lesions OR non-carious cervical lesions OR tooth wear [Mesh] OR dental wear OR tooth erosion [Mesh] OR tooth erosion* OR dental erosion OR dental enamel [Mesh] OR dental enamel OR enamel erosion) AND (anorexia [Mesh] OR anorexia OR anorexia nervosa [Mesh] OR anorexia nervosa OR bulimia [Mesh] OR bulimia OR bulimic eating disorder* OR bulimia nervosa [Mesh] OR eating disorders [Mesh] OR eating disorder* OR binge-eating disorder [Mesh] OR body dysmorphic disorders [Mesh] OR hyperphagia [Mesh] OR binge-eating/vomiting OR vomiting [Mesh] OR vomiting OR risk factors [Mesh] OR pathology [Mesh] OR eating habits) NOT (“animals”[Mesh] NOT “humans”[Mesh])). In MEDLINE, the search was limited to “humans”.
In Lilacs, BBO, Clinical Trials, Current Controlled Trials and The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence the search was conducted using combined keywords: “tooth erosion”, “dental erosion”, “enamel erosion”, “anorexia”, “bulimia”, “eating disorder”.
The electronic search retrieved 1094 abstracts and titles (Figure 1). Reference Manager Software (Reference Manager, Thomson Reuters, version 12.0.3) was used to organize the studies. After the duplicate references were removed, a total of 822 abstracts and titles were read and analyzed by two independent and calibrated reviewers (APH and PADO). As a calibration exercise, the reviewers thoroughly discussed the criteria and applied them to a sample of 20% of the retrieved studies to determine inter-examiner agreement. After adequate agreement was achieved (Kappa: 0.72 to 0.77) all the studies were read by the reviewers independently. Disagreements were resolved by consensus and by the supervision of the gold standard (CCM). If relevant data was missing or if the paper was not available, the primary authors were contacted for additional information/article request.
Four-phase PRISMA flow-diagram for study collection [38], showing the number of studies identified, screened, eligible, and included in the review and meta-analysis.
Systematic reviews, theoretical reviews and additional articles of potential relevance were also manually searched. Grey literature was searched from BBO, which retrieved thesis and monographies, and from MEDLINE, which retrieved abstracts recently presented in congress. During the abstracts' analysis all studies addressing risk factors for TE were selected, even when EDs were not mentioned, in order to search for relevant data not reported in the abstract. The exclusion criteria for abstract and title selection are detailed in Figure 1. Among the 822 records screened, 159 were selected for full text analysis (Table S1 presents excluded studies from full text analysis).
Data Extraction
Data extraction was conducted by two independent reviewers (APH and PADO) and supervised by the gold standard (CCM). The data analysis is described in Tables 1 and 2. The main analyzed outcome was that TE and EDs were extracted as categorical variables based on authors' descriptions. Extraction was based on non-exposure to risk factor vs. exposure, as follows:
- -. Control (no EDs) vs. anorexia
- -. Control (no EDs) vs. bulimia
- -. Control (no EDs) vs. bulimia with self-induced vomiting (SIV)
- -. Control (no EDs) vs. bulimia without SIV
- -. Control (no EDs) vs. any type of EDs
- -. EDs without SIV vs. EDs with SIV
- -. Control (no ED risk behavior) vs. ED risk behavior
Methodological Quality Assessment
The quality of the studies was peer-reviewed by APH and PADO using a modified version of the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for observational studies. Disagreements were resolved by consensus. No cohort study was selected during the analyses as they did not fit the inclusion criteria. No clinical trials were found by electronic and manual search.
A system of points (stars) was given to the eligible categories: sequence generation entries, allocation concealment, blinding, incomplete outcome data, and sample losses. The scale scores varied depending on the study design: for cross-sectional studies it ranged from 0 (lowest grade) to 6 (highest grade) and for case-control studies it ranged from 0 to 10. Studies with scores above the median were classified as high quality studies [12] : >3 for cross-sectional studies and >5 for case-control studies.
Each cross-sectional study could be awarded a maximum of one point for each numbered item, except for the ‘Comparability’ criteria, in which a maximum of two stars could be scored. When referring to the case-control studies, one star could be awarded for each numbered item, except for the items ‘control for confounders’ and ‘diagnosis of tooth erosion’, in which a maximum of two stars could be scored (Tables 3 and 4).
Statistical Methods and Data Synthesis
The Comprehensive Meta-Analysis program, Version 2 [13] was used for meta-analysis. Heterogeneity between studies was evaluated using I2 statistics [14]. Meta-analysis was conducted when I2 was below 50% and the sensitivity test was conducted when heterogeneity ranged from moderate to high, in order to exclude studies that would increase the heterogeneity. Random effect model was used when heterogeneity was high and fixed effect model for low heterogeneity (0.0%) [14], [15]. Risk measures, 95% confidence interval (CI) and p-value were described in forest plots, and summary risk measures were calculated. Publication bias was not evaluated as there were not enough studies to be grouped in a funnel plot [16], [17].
Results
Studies Characteristics
The study selection process is presented in Figure 1. After full text analysis, 23 studies were included in the qualitative synthesis of this systematic review (13 case-control and 10 cross-sectional) and 14 were included in the quantitative synthesis (meta-analysis). A summary of included studies with details including the studies' outcomes as reported and quality appraisal scores is shown in Table 1 and 2.
In general, for case-control studies, cases were recruited from reference centers of EDs and controls were recruited from universities and dental services [4], [18]–[24]. Data for comparison of TE experience among patients suffering from bulimia and anorexia patients was provided by 2 studies [23], [24].
Other studies [25]–[27] compared TE in bulimics with self-induced vomiting and non-vomiting groups. There was only one case-control study [28] that selected patients based on outcome (with TE vs. patients without TE). Three cross-sectional studies [5], [6], [29] evaluated TE in adolescents with ED risk behavior, and the others evaluated adolescents already diagnosed with EDs.
Data Synthesis
Comparison of vomiting practices.
Figure 2 shows meta-analysis of three cross-sectional studies [25]–[27] of patients with EDs who SIV vs. patients with EDs that did not SIV and its association with TE. There is a significant association between patients who SIV and increased risk of TE (Summary OR = 19.6, 95%CI = 5.6–68.8).
Comparison between types of EDs vs. control (without EDs).
A total of 9 case-control studies [4], [18], [20]–[22], [30]–[33] were included in this meta-analysis (Figure 3). The analysis was performed in subgroups; twelve outcomes are presented. A sensitivity analysis was performed to decrease heterogeneity. In some studies [4], [22], [33] the types of EDs were not specified, therefore they were grouped in a category called ‘EDs’, according to authors' definitions. The EDs subgroup presented a significant association with TE (Summary OR = 12.4, 95%CI = 4.1–37.5). Also, anorexia (Summary OR = 7.7, 95%CI = 1.9–30.6), bulimia (Summary OR = 8.7, 95%CI = 3.4–22.0), and bulimia with SIV (Summary OR = 13.0, 95%CI = 3.8–44.7) were significantly associated with TE; but not bulimia without SIV (Summary OR = 6.3, 95%CI = 0.8–46.9).
Eating disorders were analyzed in subgroups according to each type of ED. Heterogeneity: I2 = 0.0% (Anorexia subgroup), I2 = 44.0% (Bulimia subgroup), I2 = 0.0% (Bulimia with SIV subgroup), I2 = 0.0% (Bulimia without SIV subgroup), I2 = 0.0% (EDs subgroup), random effect model used.
ED risk behavior and its association with TE.
The meta-analysis and sensitivity analysis of two cross-sectional studies [6], [29] showed a significant association between adolescents with ED risk behavior and TE (Summary OR = 11.6, 95% CI = 3.2–41.7) (Figure 4).
Discussion
Assessment of Bias in Included Studies
In the present paper no bias occurred due to language or year of publication, as there was no exclusion related to these reasons. Twenty papers were published in English [4]–[6], [9], [18]–[26], [28], [30]–[32], [34]–[36], and there were also publications in Portuguese [29], Spanish [27] and Italian [33]. The search presented papers published from 1977 [25], [26] to 2013 [6]. A manual search was conducted on reference lists of the studies screened and literature reviews.
Assessment of Methodological Quality
Among the cross-sectional studies, the major shortcomings involved the data collection process and comparability issues on the basis of the study design or analysis. One study did not mention whether the patients suffering from EDs were diagnosed by clinicians or if validated criteria were used to evaluate the EDs. It also did not mention if the patients were referred from hospitals [25]. Only a few studies reported the criteria used to identify TE or if the examiners had been trained and calibrated [6], [9], [25], [36].
Another shortcoming refers to the external validity of the studies analyzed. During the analysis it was observed that the majority of the studies were conducted among female samples; from the 23 studies included in the meta-analysis, nine included male participants [4], [5], [25]–[29], [32], [35]. Also, the studies had a broad age range, varying from 12 [5] to 83 [28] years.
The absence of controlling for confounders was also observed. Only two studies reported adjusted analysis for confounders, and one controlled the association between TE and EDs for dietary habits and oral hygiene [6]. The other study controlled salivary factors and the duration of oral manifestations and EDs [25]. The studies did not clearly report whether there were sample losses, with only one study including a written description of this aspect [24].
With respect to the case-control studies, one study [28] selected the cases by the presence of TE instead of the manifestation of EDs. Only two studies did not report whether a baseline examination was conducted to ensure that the controls were not suffering from EDs at the beginning of the study [33], [34]. Regarding the oral examinations, four studies did not mention the criteria used for TE diagnosis [18], [30], [33], [34]. Details on the blinding process were also fairly reported as only four studies reported that the examiners were blinded concerning the ED status of the participants during the oral examinations [6], [20], [22], [32].
Strength of Evidence
The evidence found in the meta-analysis of the case-control studies indicates that patients suffering from different types of EDs, anorexia, bulimia and bulimia with SIV have a greater risk of exhibiting TE in comparison to individuals without such exposure (Figure 3). It was also observed that EDs were significantly associated with the severity of TE (p<0.01) [35]. Only one study did not show this association as TE was not detected in any patient [9]. However, the study pointed out some limitations, such as the small number of participants, which limited the statistical power of the analysis performed [9]. Bulimia and anorexia were significantly associated with TE (Figure 3). However, the authors did not specify whether the disorders involved vomiting practices. The association of bulimia, anorexia and TE was also highlighted by other studies [19], [34].
There was a statistical association of bulimia with SIV and TE, but not for bulimia without SIV (Figure 3). This reinforces the hypothesis that purging techniques are crucial cofactors for the occurrence of TE, which results from a chronically acidic oral environment [4]. This can be reinforced by Figure 2, which shows that patients suffering from EDs who SIV had a significant greater risk of TE when compared to patients who did not SIV. In this case, EDs were not specified by the authors. Such an association was also observed in other studies [28], [36].
Nevertheless, analysis from Figures 2 and 3 involved a small number of studies. For example, in Figure 3, the subgroup of bulimia presented four studies and all other subgroups were composed of fewer studies. Also, Figure 2 included only three studies. The small number of studies analyzed can decrease the statistical power of the tests. In this research it can be observed that some results (Figures 2, 3 and 4) present large confidence intervals, decreasing the statistical power and the precision of the estimated population effect size [37]. One possible explanation for the low statistical power resulting from such intervals may rely on the small sample of some studies.
Furthermore, the methodological quality can influence the meta-analysis interpretation [12]. The studies included in Figures 2 and 3 were very heterogeneous. Figure 3 included studies with quality ranging from 5 to 9 points; Figure 2 included two studies that scored 3 points [26], [27] and one that scored 5 points [25] (Tables 2 and 4). It is well known that the type of quality assessment scale used affects the analysis and the conclusions of meta-analytic studies, therefore the use of other quality scales could have resulted in different outcomes [12].
Several studies [4], [19]–[21], [31]–[35] which were conducted in different settings and using different methods showed similar findings related to the possible causal relationship between EDs and TE. Specificity, temporality, and dose-response relationships were also observed. Some studies observed that the years of exposure to EDs and vomiting practices influenced the risk of TE [35], [36]. Nevertheless, only cross-sectional and case-control studies were included in this systematic review. No cohort study was found. This highlights the need of prospective cohort studies, which could provide the highest strength of association to confirm this scientific evidence.
The association between the ED risk behavior and the presence of TE was investigated by three studies [5], [6], [29]. One of the studies [5] did not enter the meta-analysis, as it was excluded during the sensitivity analysis. When analyzing the forest plot it can be observed that although the studies' meta-analysis showed a significant association between these variables, the confidence intervals were large, decreasing the statistical power [37]. Moreover, the studies' quality assessment revealed a high degree of heterogeneity; one study scored 3 points [29] and the other scored 6 points [6] (Tables 2 and 4). The methodological heterogeneity evaluated by the quality assessment scale can influence the meta-analysis interpretation [12] and the strength of evidence.
Inferential causal conclusions associating the ED risk behavior and TE cannot be drawn due to the studies' cross-sectional design and the limited number of studies which were evaluated in the meta-analysis (Figure 4).
The consistency related to the possible causal relationship between ED risk behavior and TE is weak. There are only 3 studies analyzing this issue and two of them were conducted in the same place [5], [29]. Furthermore, by analyzing the literature it is still not possible to draw any conclusion related to the specificity, temporality, dose-response, experimental evidence, biological plausibility, coherence or analogy between both conditions considering only three cross-sectional studies. Up to the present time, there is still a lack of solid evidence for an increased TE risk due to EDs, once there is no low risk of bias reporting a large effect.
In the present systematic review it was not possible to evaluate the publication bias as there were not enough studies to be grouped in a funnel plot [17]. However, there seems to be a tendency to report a positive association between EDs and TE.
Conclusions
Purging practices seem to increase the risk of TE. Nevertheless, there is a significant lack of scientific evidence to fulfill the basic criteria of causation between both conditions. Moreover, the present systematic review does reveal that to date there is no solid evidence in support of the postulated causal role of EDs in the occurrence of TE.
It is important to conduct prospective cohort studies in this area in order to investigate such evidence. Special attention should be given to studies on ED risk behavior, as the main goal should be to detect subclinical cases and avoid the onset of EDs and further comorbidities.
Supporting Information
Table S1.
List of titles selected for full text analysis and the reasons for exclusion.
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Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: APH PADO CCM IAP SMP SMA. Performed the experiments: APH PADO CCM. Analyzed the data: APH PADO CCM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: APH PADO CCM. Wrote the paper: APH PADO CCM SMA. Concieved the study, developed the study design and protocols, study design, PICO question: APH PADO CCM IAP SMP SMA. Manuscript revision: IAP SMP SMA.
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