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UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS
FACULDADE DE ODONTOLOGIA DE PIRACICABA
Jessica Montenegro Fonseca
ALTERAÇÕES DO COMPLEXO DENTINA-POLPA EM CÁRIE CONVENCIONAL
E CÁRIE RELACIONADA À RADIAÇÃO: UM ESTUDO COMPARATIVO.
DENTIN-PULP COMPLEX REACTIONS IN CONVENTIONAL AND RADIATION-
RELATED CARIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY.
Piracicaba
2017
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Jessica Montenegro Fonseca
ALTERAÇÕES DO COMPLEXO DENTINA- POLPA EM CÁRIE CONVENCIONAL
E CÁRIE RELACIONADA À RADIAÇÃO: UM ESTUDO COMPARATIVO.
DENTIN-PULP COMPLEX REACTIONS IN CONVENTIONAL AND RADIATION-
RELATED CARIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY.
Dissertação apresentada à Faculdade de
Odontologia de Piracicaba da Universidade
Estadual de Campinas como parte dos
requisitos exigidos para a obtenção do título de
Mestra em Estomatopatologia, na Área de
Estomatologia.
Dissertation presented to the Piracicaba Dental
School of the University of Campinas in
partial fulfilment of the requirements for the
degree of Master in Pathology, in Stomatology
area.
Orientador: Prof. Dr. Mario Fernando De Goes
Coorientador: Prof. Dr. Alan Roger Dos Santos Silva
ESTE EXEMPLAR CORRESPONDE À VERSÃO FINAL DA DISSERTAÇÃO
DEFENDIDA PELA ALUNA JESSICA MONTENEGRO FONSECA E ORIENTADA PELO
PROFº. DRº MARIO FERNANDO DE GOES.
Piracicaba
2017
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Agência(s) de fomento e nº(s) de processo(s): CAPES,
758/2012
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1217-7298
Ficha catalográfica
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Biblioteca da Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba
Marilene Girello - CRB 8/6159
Fonseca, Jessica Montenegro, 1991-
F733a Alterações do complexo dentina-polpa em cárie convencional
e cárie
relacionada à radiação : um estudo comparativo / Jessica
Montenegro
Fonseca. – Piracicaba, SP : [s.n.], 2017.
Orientador: Mario Fernando de Goes.
Coorientador: Alan Roger dos Santos Silva.
Dissertação (mestrado) – Universidade Estadual de Campinas,
Faculdade
de Odontologia de Piracicaba.
1. Câncer. 2. Radioterapia. 3. Cárie dentária. 4. Dentes. 5.
Polpa dentária.
I. Goes, Mario Fernando de,1954-. II. Santos-Silva, Alan
Roger,1981-. III.
Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Odontologia de
Piracicaba.
IV. Título.
Informações para Biblioteca Digital
Título em outro idioma: Dentin-pulp complex reactions in
conventional and radiation-
related caries : a comparative study
Palavras-chave em inglês:
Cancer
Radiotherapy
Dental caries
Teeth
Dental pulp
Área de concentração: Estomatologia
Titulação: Mestra em Estomatopatologia
Banca examinadora:
Alan Roger dos Santos Silva [Coorientador]
José Flávio Affonso de Almeida
Karina Morais Faria
Data de defesa: 17-07-2017
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Estomatopatologia
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UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS
FACULDADE DE ODONTOLOGIA DE
PIRACICABA
A Comissão Julgadora dos trabalhos de Defesa de Dissertação de
Mestrado, em sessão
pública realizada em 17 de Julho de 2017, considerou a candidata
JESSICA MONTENEGRO
FONSECA aprovada.
PROF. DR. ALAN ROGER DOS SANTOS SILVA
PROFª. DRª. KARINA MORAIS FARIA
PROF. DR. JOSÉ FLÁVIO AFFONSO DE ALMEIDA
A Ata da defesa com as respectivas assinaturas dos membros
encontra-se no processo de vida
acadêmica do aluno.
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DEDICATÓRIA
Dedico este trabalho aos meus pais Jane Montenegro Fonsêca e Ruy
Leal Fonsêca,
que por amor e altruísmo abdicaram dos próprios caminhos, para
acompanhar-me nos meus;
À minhas irmãs, Taís Montenegro Fonsêca e Elaine Montenegro
Fonsêca por igual
apoio.
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AGRADECIMENTOS
À Deus por sua presença em mim, todos os dias, na forma de fé,
dando- me saúde e
força para superar as dificuldades;
À Universidade Estadual de Campinas, na pessoa do Magnífico
Reitor, Prof. Dr.
Marcelo Knobel;
À Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba, na pessoa do seu
Diretor Prof. Dr.
Guilherme Elias Pessanha Henriques, e seu Diretor Associado,
Prof. Dr. Francisco Haiter
Neto;
Ao Professor Doutor Márcio Ajudarte Lopes, coordenador do
Programa de Pós
Graduação em Estomatopatologia, pela atenção com cada um dos
alunos do programa e por
todas as oportunidades cedidas;
Ao Professor Doutor Alan Roger dos Santos Silva, pela orientação
acadêmica e
profissional e por todo o cuidado e atenção do início ao fim do
meu mestrado, sempre
incentivando a criar novos conhecimentos e sendo exemplo de
ética e profissionalismo;
Aos Professores Doutores, Oslei Paes de Almeida, Pablo Agustin
Vargas, Jacks Jorge
Júnior, Edgard Graner e Ricardo Della Coletta, da Área de
Patologia da Faculdade de
Odontologia de Piracicaba, pelo apoio, dedicação e oportunidades
de aprendizado;
Aos profissionais do OROCENTRO, em especial ao Rogério de
Andrade Elias,
Elisabete, Maria Aparecida Campion, Daniele Cristina Castelli
Morelli, pelo apoio, bom
convívio e aprendizado profissional;
Aos profissionais do Laboratório de Patologia Oral, da Faculdade
de Odontologia de
Piracicaba, em especial ao Adriano Luís e Fabiana Casarotti, por
todo suporte, atenção e
também pelo aprendizado;
À Thaís Bianca Brandão, chefe do serviço de Odontologia
Oncológica do Instituto do
Câncer do Estado de São Paulo (ICESP) por ter cedido o material
biológico que viabilizou a
execução desta Dissertação e por todo o suporte que tem
oferecido ao Programa de Pós
Graduação em Estomatopatologia da FOP - UNICAMP;
À Fundação Brasileira de Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de
Pessoal de Nível
Superior (CAPES) pelo apoio financeiro, através da concessão da
bolsa de mestrado no
período de Agosto de 2015 à Julho de 2017;
À professora Doutora Águida Cristina Gomes Henriques Leitão,
minha orientadora de
iniciação científica, pelo apoio e incentivo contínuo desde a
minha graduação até hoje;
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Aos colegas Wagner Gomes, Mariana Paglioni e Karina Morais pela
colaboração na
minha pesquisa e nos experimentos;
À minha turma de mestrado, Gleyson Amaral, Natália Palmier,
Rodrigo Soares, Lígia
Miyahara e Camila Weissheimer pela amizade, união, cumplicidade
e por todo o apoio
profissional e pessoal;
Aos meus companheiros de moradia Daniel Chan, Lara Caponi, Lucas
Del Vigna,
Thaís Tavares, Jordana Carvalho, Rebeca Barros e Bruno Mariz
pela irmandade e carinho
durante toda a minha estadia em Piracicaba, facilitando a minha
jornada longe de casa;
Por fim a todos os meus colegas e amigos da Faculdade de
Odontologia, pelo bom
convívio, troca de experiências e apoio durante o período do meu
mestrado.
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EPÍGRAFE
“Sempre que houver alternativas, tenha cuidado. Não opte pelo
conveniente, pelo
confortável, pelo respeitável, pelo socialmente aceitável, pelo
honroso.
Opte pelo que faz o seu coração vibrar. Opte pelo que gostaria
de fazer, apesar de todas as
consequências.”
(Osho)
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RESUMO
Os carcinomas espinocelulares de cabeça e pescoço são
diagnosticados
predominantemente em estadios clínicos avançados da doença e,
consequentemente, tratados
por meio de protocolos multimodalidade, incluindo
quimiorradioterapia (QRDT). Apesar dos
avanços tecnológicos, protocolos contemporâneos de radioterapia
(RDT) atingem, além do
tumor primário, tecidos sadios adjacentes ao tumor, gerando
toxicidades agudas e crônicas em
pele, mucosas, glândulas salivares, ossos e dentes, entre
outros. A cárie relacionada à
radioterapia (CRR) é uma toxidade crônica que afeta
aproximadamente 25% dos pacientes
submetidos à RDT na região de cabeça e pescoço, podendo gerar
destruição generalizada dos
dentes, perda de eficiência mastigatória, infecção crônica e
risco aumentado para o
desenvolvimento da osteorradionecrose. A inclusão dos dentes no
campo de radiação dos
tumores de cabeça e pescoço (CCPs) sugere que a CRR resulta da
destruição radiogênica do
esmalte, da junção amelodentinária e do complexo dentina-polpa.
Desta forma, é imperioso
compreender se sua patogênese é consequência direta ou indireta
da RDT. O objetivo deste
estudo foi comparar padrões microscópicos de resposta do
complexo dentina-polpa à
progressão da cárie convencional e da CRR a fim de testar a
hipótese de que a RDT é capaz
de modificar diretamente as respostas micromorfológicas do
complexo dentina-polpa à
progressão da CRR. Foram utilizados 22 dentes extraídos de
pacientes com CCPs, divididos
entre grupo controle (cárie convencional) e grupo estudo (CRR).
Os espécimes dos dois
grupos foram pareados por grupo anatômico dental, padrões
clínicos de progressão da cárie
[“Post-Radiation Dental Index” (PRDI)] e profundidade de invasão
microscópica das lesões de cárie.
As amostras foram desmineralizadas e analisadas por meio da
microscopia de luz óptica e da
histomorfometria a fim de investigar a hierarquia tecidual da
polpa e padrões microscópicos
da resposta do complexo dentina-polpa à progressão da cárie.
Todos os eventos avaliados
neste estudo foram semelhantes entre os grupos, incluindo PRDI
(CRR=3.8 vs. controle=3.2),
profundidade de invasão microscópica (CRR=1,056.89 μm vs.
controle=1,158.58 μm; p=
0.79), evidência de fibrose pulpar (p=0.9), calcificação pulpar
(p=0.34), necrose pulpar
(p=1.0), inflamação pulpar (p= 0.28) e deposição de dentina
reacional (p=0.28). Em
conclusão, o presente estudo identificou preservação da
hierarquia tecidual da polpa em
ambos os grupos, rejeitando a hipótese de que a RDT é capaz de
modificar diretamente as
respostas micromorfológicas do complexo dentina-polpa à
progressão da CRR.
Palavras-chave: Câncer; Radioterapia, Cárie Relacionada à
Radiação, Dentes, Polpa
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ABSTRACT
Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas are mainly diagnosed in
late stages, which
consequently increases the necessity for multimodality treatment
protocols, such as
chemoradiotherapy (CRT). Although the technological improvement
in radiotherapy (RT)
treatment protocols, radiation still damage not only the tumour
site but also adjacent healthy
tissues leading to the development of acute and chronic
toxicities on the skin and mucosal
tissues, salivary glands, bones, teeth, among others.
Radiation-related caries (RRC) is a
chronic toxicity that affects about 25% of the patients who have
undergone head and neck RT
(HNRT), and it can lead to generalized tooth breakdown, loss of
masticatory efficiency,
recurrent infections and increased risk for the development of
osteoradionecrosis. The
inclusion of the teeth inside the radiation field of head and
neck tumours (HNC) suggests that
RRC results of a radiogenic destruction of enamel, dentin-enamel
junction (DEJ) and dentin-
pulp complex. Therefore, it`s of great importance to further
understand if it’s the direct or
indirect influence of RT on the pathogenesis of RRC. The aim of
the present study was to
compare microscopic patterns of the dentin-pulp complex response
to the progression of
conventional caries lesions and RRC, testing the null hypothesis
that the RT is able to directly
modify the micromorphological response of the dentin-pulp
complex facing RRC
progression. Twenty-two teeth extracted from HNC patients were
divided into control
(conventional caries) and study (RRC) groups. The samples from
both groups were paired
matched by anatomic dental group, clinical patterns of caries
progression [“Post-Radiation
Dental Index” (PRDI)] and depth of microscopic invasion of
caries lesions. Samples were
demineralized and analysed by means of light microscopy and
histomorphometry in order to
investigate the pulp tissue hierarchy and microscopic patterns
of the dentin-pulp complex
response to caries. The results found in the present study were
similar between the groups,
including PRDI (Control= 3.2 vs RRC= 3.8), depth of microscopic
invasion (Control=
1,158.58 μm vs RRC= 1,056.89 μm; p=0.79), pulp fibrosis evidence
(p=0.9), pulp
calcification (p=0.34), pulp necrosis (p=1.0), pulp inflammation
(p=0.28) and tertiary dentin
deposition (p=0.28). In conclusion, the present study observed
preservation of pulp tissue
hierarchy in both groups rejecting the null hypothesis that the
RT is able to directly modify
the micromorphological response of the dentin-pulp complex
facing RRC progression.
Key Words: Cancer; Radiotherapy, Radiation-Related Caries,
Teeth, Pulp.
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SUMÁRIO
1 INTRODUÇÃO 12
2 ARTIGO: Dentin-Pulp Complex Reactions In Conventional And
Radiation-Related Caries: A Comparative Study
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3 CONCLUSÃO 35
REFERÊNCIAS 36
ANEXOS
Anexo 1: Parecer Consubstanciado do CEP 40
Anexo 2: Certificado de submissão ao periódico: Clinical
Oral
Investigations
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1 INTRODUÇÃO
A incidência do câncer aumentou de modo exponencial nos últimos
anos em todo o
mundo, e passou a apresentar um grande desafio no cenário de
políticas em saúde pública.
Estima-se que, até 2030, 27 milhões de casos novos serão
diagnosticados no mundo. No
Brasil, para 2017, foram estimados 596 mil novos casos de câncer
(INCA, 2016). Neste
contexto, o câncer de cabeça e pescoço (CCP) representa 6% de
todas as neoplasias malignas,
afetando frequentemente os tecidos moles e duros da boca,
lábios, faringe, laringe, glândulas
salivares menores e maiores, cavidade nasal e seios paranasais
(Sloan et al., 2017). Entre
todos os casos de câncer de cabeça e pescoço, 90% correspondem a
carcinomas
espinocelulares (CECs) de boca orofaringe (Rodrigues et al.,
2014; Sloan et al., 2017).
Indivíduos do gênero masculino, idosos, tabagistas e etilistas
de longa data e grande
intensidade representam o principal perfil clínico para o câncer
de boca e orofaringe (Pelucchi
et al., 2008; Neville et al., 2016). Recentemente, outro grupo
composto por pacientes mais
jovens (menos de 40 anos de idade) e sem fatores de risco
comumente associados ao câncer
de boca foi identificado (Ribeiro et al., 2009). A infecção pelo
papiloma vírus humano (HPV),
principalmente o genótipo 16 e 18, também é atualmente
considerada fator de risco para o
CEC de orofaringe e, ao que tudo indica, está associada ao
comportamento sexual (sexo oral)
(Sloan et al., 2017) .
Em adição à problemática da alta frequência dos CECs bucais e de
orofaringe, é
importante esclarecer que a maior parte destes tumores é
diagnosticada tardiamente, em
estadiamentos clínicos avançados da doença, o que torna seu
tratamento desafiador e
associado a baixas taxas de sobrevida em cinco anos. Os
protocolos de tratamento
contemporâneos do CEC de boca e orofaringe costumam envolver a
cirurgia, a quimioterapia
(QT) e a radioterapia (RDT) associadas ou, mais frequentemente,
combinadas (Huang e
O´sullivan, 2013; Marta et al., 2015).
A radiação ionizante atua diretamente sobre as células tumorais
durante o ciclo celular,
produzindo espécies reativas de oxigênio que interagem, por sua
vez, com o DNA, o RNA e
as enzimas celulares de forma a desorganizar seus nucleotídeos e
danificar seu material
genético de modo que não consegue ser reparado pelos mecanismos
regulatórios de células
malignas, gerando apoptose, morte celular e diminuição da
capacidade proliferativa do tumor
(Huber e Terezhalmy, 2003).
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A dose de RDT é expressa pela quantidade de energia absorvida
pelo tecido irradiado.
A unidade que padroniza a dose absorvida pelo tecido é conhecida
como Gray (Gy = 1J/Kg)
(Huber; Terezhalmy, 2003; Rolim; Costa; Ramalho, 2011). Com o
objetivo de minimizar
toxicidades ao paciente, a RDT em cabeça e pescoço costuma ser
administrada ao longo de 5
a 7 semanas com frações diárias de 2 Gy, 5 vezes por semana com
intervalos de dois dias (aos
finais de semana) a fim de que os tecidos sadios adjacentes ao
tumor possam se recuperar
(Vissink et al., 2003; Kielbassa et al., 2006).
A QT também cumpre papel importante no tratamento dos CECs
bucais e de
orofaringe e tem sido associada à RDT (quimiorradioterapia -
QRDT) de forma a elevar as
chances de sucesso terapêutico, podendo ser aplicada antes
(indução), simultaneamente
(neoadjuvante) ou após o tratamento radioterápico (adjuvante).
Desta forma, a QRDT atua
reduzindo o tamanho do tumor primário, potencializando a
atividade citotóxica do tratamento
e reduzindo o risco de metástases (Bucheler et al., 2012). No
entanto, esta modalidade pode
intensificar as toxicidades bucais que comumente geram dor
intensa, necessidade de
interrupção dos protocolos de tratamento oncológico, redução nas
taxas de sucesso do
tratamento e aumento dos custos globais de tratamento do câncer
(Seiwert et al., 2007).
O tratamento radioterápico associado ou não à QT para os CCPs
promove reações aos
tecidos sadios adjacentes ao campo irradiado, incluindo os
dentes. De acordo com Cooper et
al. (1995), a região de cabeça e pescoço é complexa do ponto de
vista anatômico, onde
estruturas muito distintas do ponto de vista biológico reagem de
uma maneira muito variável à
radiação. Neste cenário, as principais toxicidades da RDT
incluem mucosite, disgeusia,
disfagia, hipossalivação, infecções oportunistas,
osteorradionecrose, CRR e trismo, entre
outros (Vissink et al., 2003; Lobo; Martins, 2009). Estas
toxicidades podem se manifestar
logo no início (agudas) ou após meses da conclusão da RDT
(crônicas), sendo que as últimas
podem apresentar duração permanente aos pacientes que
sobreviverem (Vissink et al., 2003).
Nesta problemática, a CRR é uma toxicidade crônica que surge
após aproximadamente
12 meses da conclusão do tratamento radioterápico e afeta cerca
de 25% dos pacientes
tratados por RDT em cabeça e pescoço. Interessantemente, os
padrões clínicos de início,
desenvolvimento e progressão da CRR são distintos aos da cárie
convencional (Hong et al.,
2010). O início da CRR geralmente afeta as áreas cervical e
incisal dos dentes anteriores
(Kielbassa et al., 2006), gerando primariamente perda do brilho
e translucidez do esmalte da
coroa dental seguida por alteração da coloração da coroa que
passa a assumir tom
esbranquiçado que, se não tratado, progride para marrom escuro
em associação a trincas e
fraturas nas superfícies livres de esmalte. Posteriormente, o
esmalte sofre o fenômeno de
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“delaminação” caracterizado pelo desprendimento de grandes áreas
de esmalte que acaba
expondo a dentina (tecido mais frágil) ao ambiente bucal dos
pacientes irradiados, marcado
por alto potencial cariogênico e que permitirá rápida
deterioração das coroas dentárias que
acabam amputadas da raiz, expondo o canal radicular ao meio
bucal, tornando-se fácil acesso
para entrada de microrganismos nos tecidos periapicais. (Frank
et al., 1965; Schweyen et al.,
2012). Caso não seja instituído um protocolo de prevenção ou
tratamento à CRR, pode
ocorrer destruição generalizada dos dentes de pacientes
oncológicos, representando um
grande risco para o desenvolvimento de focos de infecção crônica
e, consequentemente, de
osteorradionecrose (Vissink et al., 2003; Silva et al., 2009).
Geralmente, a deterioração dos
tecidos dentais relacionada à CRR não está associada a queixa de
dor espontânea, ou
estimulada, por parte dos pacientes (Schweyen et al., 2012).
O conjunto de sinais e eventos clínicos “atípicos” descritos
acima, no contexto da
CRR, acaba por estimular clínicos e pesquisadores a atribuir o
início e a progressão da CRR a
danos radiogênicos diretos sobre a microestrutura dentária. Esta
eventual destruição
radiogênica seria responsável pela perda gradual da vitalidade
pulpar e consequente retração
dos processos odontoblásticos, gerando fragilidade na junção
amelodentinária (JAD)
(Dahllöf et al., 1994; Grötz et al., 2001). Outros autores
sugeriram que alterações radiogênicas
diretas alterariam o fluxo vascular da polpa e reduziriam a
condução nervosa dos nociceptores
pulpares, permitindo que a CRR progredisse de modo mais rápido
na ausência dos
mecanismos protetores de dor nos pacientes oncológicos
irradiados (Knowles et al., 1986;
Schweyen et al., 2012). Ainda no campo da vascularização pulpar,
estudos clínicos
demonstraram que os níveis de oxigenação da polpa diminuem
durante a radioterapia para
tumores de cabeça e pescoço. Contudo, o mesmo grupo de autores,
em outro estudo mais
recente, demonstrou níveis normais de oxigenação da polpa após 4
a 6 anos da conclusão do
tratamento radioterápico, sugerindo que a radioterapia
provavelmente não tem influência a
longo prazo na vitalidade da polpa (Kataoka et al., 2011;
Kataoka et al., 2016).
Os estudos supramencionados validam evidências sobre o fato de
que a patogênese da
CRR permanece controversa e incerta, especialmente no que se
refere à capacidade da RDT
em gerar efeitos diretos na estrutura dentária. Uma série de
pesquisadores e especialistas
acreditam que a CRR não deve ser atribuída aos efeitos diretos
da RDT sobre os dentes; ao
contrário, seria resultado de um “agrupamento de sintomas
bucais” representados por efeitos
indiretos da radiação que se desenvolvem em pacientes com CCPs
submetidos à RDT, como
as alterações quantitativas (hipossalivação) e qualitativas
(microbiota bucal) da saliva que são
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notoriamente atribuídas ao aumento do risco de cárie (Kielbassa
et al., 2006; Sciubba et al.,
2006). Tais alterações na quantidade e na composição salivar
alteram a microbiota oral,
estimulando o desenvolvimento de microrganismos acidófilos com
patogenicidade aumentada
como Streptococcus mutans, Lactobacillus e espécies de Cândida
(Al-Nawas et al., 2006;
Kielbassa et al., 2006).
O “agrupamento de sintomas orais” é ainda composto por
alterações na dieta do
paciente com CPP submetido à RDT. O déficit nutricional típico
deste perfil de pacientes
oncológicos é compensado por meio da ingestão de alimentos mais
calóricos, de consistência
pastosa ou líquida, ricos em carboidratos, em porções pequenas e
frequentes, o que favorece a
adesão à superfície dental de um ambiente sem saliva e aumenta a
predisposição à cárie
rampante (Deng et al., 2015). Além disso, esta população
enfrenta um desafio no controle da
placa dental devido a um curto intervalo de tempo entre as
refeições e também à dor
relacionada à mucosite (induzida pela QRDT) que afeta
diretamente o estímulo à higiene oral
e a capacidade de remoção mecânica do biofilme dental (Vissink
et al., 2003; Kielbassa et al.,
2006; McGuire et al., 2014; Brennan et al., 2010).
Adicionalmente a esta teoria multifatorial acerca da patogênese
da CRR, a hipótese do
dano radiogênico direto para os tecidos dentários permanece
latente na literatura científica.
Estudos anteriores utilizando modelos experimentais animais ou
técnicas de RDT já em
desuso defendem a ideia de alterações pulpares em dentes
submetidos a altas doses de
radiação (Meyer et al., 1962; Hutton et al., 1974; Vier
–Pelisser et al., 2007). Do mesmo
modo, pesquisas in vitro, sustentam a existência de alterações
na estrutura mineralizada de
dentes irradiados (Pioch et al., 1992; Springer et al., 2005; De
Barros da Cunha et al., 2017).
Springer et al., (2005), concluiu em um estudo que a radiação é
capaz de causar dano direto
ao colágeno presente na polpa dental, não ocorrendo em tecido
mineralizado devido a
concentração relativamente baixa desta proteína na dentina e
esmalte.
Contrariamente a estes resultados, estudos recentes de nossa
equipe de pesquisadores -
baseados em dentes irradiados in vivo- indicam que os efeitos
diretos da radiação não são
capazes de causar alterações micromorfológicas nos tecidos
dentários. Em outras palavras, é
pouco provável que a radiação ionizante dos protocolos
oncológicos de RDT em cabeça e
pescoço represente um fator de risco independente para o início
e a progressão da CRR (Silva
et al., 2009; Faria et al., 2014; Gomes-Silva et al., 2017).
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A despeito dos resultados mencionados, tornou-se imperioso
aprimorar o
conhecimento do impacto da RDT sobre o complexo dentina-polpa e
sua habilidade de
responder à progressão da CRR, tendo em vista os resultados de
pesquisas sugerindo que os
efeitos diretos da radiação limitariam a resposta do complexo
dentina-polpa e justificariam a
rápida progressão clínica da CRR (Springer et al., 2005;
El-Faramawy et al., 2013; McGuire
et al., 2014).
Portanto, o presente estudo se propôs a comparar os padrões
microscópicos de
resposta do complexo dentina-polpa à progressão da cárie
convencional e da CRR, com a
finalidade de testar a hipótese de que a RDT é capaz de
modificar diretamente as respostas
micromorfológicas do complexo dentina-polpa à progressão da
CRR.
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2 ARTIGO
Este trabalho foi realizado no formato alternativo, conforme
Informação
CCPG/001/2015, da Comissão Central de Pós-Graduação (CCPG) da
Universidade Estadual
de Campinas.
Dentin-pulp complex reactions in conventional and
radiation-related caries: A
comparative study.
Jéssica Montenegro Fonsêcaa
Wagner Gomes Silvaa,b
Natalia Rangel Palmiera
Pablo Agustin Vargasa
Mario Fernando De Goesc
Marcio Ajudarte Lopesa
João Victor Salvajolid
Ana Carolina Prado Ribeiroa,b
Thais Bianca Brandãoa,b
Alan Roger Santos-Silvaa,b
a Oral Diagnosis Department, Semiology and Oral Pathology Areas,
Piracicaba Dental School,
University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Piracicaba, São Paulo,
Brazil.
b Dental Oncology Service, Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São
Paulo (ICESP), Faculdade
de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
c Department of Dental Materials, Piracicaba Dental School, Av.
Limeira, 901, Piracicaba, SP
13414-903, Brazil.
d Radiotherapy Service, Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São
Paulo (ICESP), Faculdade de
Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Corresponding Author
Alan Roger Santos-Silva DDS, MSc, PhD
Department of Oral Diagnosis, Semiology Area
Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
Av. Limeira, 901, Bairro Areão, Piracicaba-SP, Brasil. CEP
13414-903
[email protected] Telephone: +55 19 21065320
mailto:[email protected]
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge the financial
support of the São
Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) processes numbers
2013/18402-8 and 2012/06138-1 as
well as The Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education
Personnel
(CAPES/PROEX process number 758/2012). The authors also thank
Fabiana Facco
Cassarotti and Adriano Luis Martins who provided technical
support and contributed to the
experimental development of the study.
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: radiation-related caries (RRC) is one of the most
significant oral toxicities of
head and neck radiotherapy (HNRT); however, the potential of
radiation to directly cause
harmful dentin and pulpal effects and impair response to caries
progression is controversial.
Therefore, the aim of this study was to characterize the
reactions of the dentin-pulp complex
in teeth affected by RRC. Methods: twenty-two carious teeth
extracted from 22 head and neck
cancer patients were divided into control (conventional caries;
n=11) and irradiated (RRC;
n=11) groups and matched by dental homology, clinical patterns
of caries progression
following the Post-Radiation Dental Index (PRDI) and microscopic
depth of carious invasion
(1,158.58µm control vs. 1,056.89µm irradiated; p=0.79). Optical
light microscopy and
histomorphometry descriptively investigated histopathological
characteristics based on
morphological hierarchy and cell populations of dental pulp,
including blood vessels, neural
elements, extracellular matrix components, presence of
inflammation, patterns of carious
invasion and reactionary dentin presence. Results: pulp
histopathological changes and dentin
reaction patterns were similar between groups and varied
according to the PRDI scores and
carious lesions depth. Conclusions: dentin and pulp reactions to
RRC are highly preserved.
Clinical relevance: direct effects of radiation therapy may not
be directly injurious to the pulp
to the extent of impairing the response to caries
progression.
Key Words: Cancer; Caries; Radiotherapy, Radiation-Related
Caries, Teeth, Pulp.
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INTRODUCTION
Head and neck cancer (HNC) represent 6% of all human
malignancies and
approximately 650,000 new cases are diagnosed annually
worldwide. Treatment protocols
often involve the combination of surgery, chemotherapy, and head
and neck radiotherapy
(HNRT). Although considered highly effective in the locoregional
control of cancer, HNRT
results in a myriad of acute and chronic toxicities to
non-targeted tissues, including oral
mucositis, hyposalivation, oral opportunistic infections,
trismus, radiation-related caries
(RRC) and osteoradionecrosis, among others [1, 2].
RRC, also known as “radiation caries”, is a chronic side effect
of HNRT that affects
up to 25% of patients who underwent HNRT. Its hallmark is a high
potential for generalized
dentition destruction and clinical patterns of progression that
differ from conventional caries,
being characterized by widespread cervical demineralization,
incisal edges and cusp tips
lesions and diffuse brownish to black discoloration of the
smooth surface of enamel. RRC
rapidly progresses causing enamel cracks, delamination and
amputation of teeth crowns,
leading to teeth destruction. In addition, it can increase the
risk for the development of
osteoradionecrosis and negatively impact the overall oral
function as well as the quality of life
of cancer survivors [3, 4].
One of the most controversial topics in the scenario of HNRT
side effects is the ability
of ionizing radiation to cause direct radiogenic destruction to
the teeth. Although many
studies have suggested direct radiogenic damage to the dentin
and pulp that would lead to
RRC [5, 6, 7], others have linked the increased risk of caries
in post-HNRT patients with the
indirect effects of radiation therapy. These would include
hyposalivation, oral microbiota
alterations, impaired self-cleaning properties, poor oral health
status prior to and after
treatment, increased dietary intake of carbohydrates, and
insufficient fluoride exposure, which
form a cluster of oral symptoms that predisposes patients to
rampant caries regardless of the
direct effect of radiation on teeth [8, 9, 10].
Hence, considering that HNRT is routinely used in more than 90%
of all HNC patients
[2], it is paramount to precisely understand its impact on the
reactions of dentin and pulp to
caries progression. To date, no study has been conducted to
investigate biological evidence
that radiation therapy could be directly injurious to the
dentin-pulp complex and impair
response to caries progression. Therefore, this study aimed to
evaluate if in vivo irradiated
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human teeth affected by RRC have microscopically discernible
effect on dentin and pulp
responses when compared to conventional caries teeth
samples.
PATIENTS AND METHODS
Patients and specimen collection
This study was approved by the local Ethics Committee (protocol
number 023/2015)
and was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of
Helsinki. Carious teeth (n=22) from
HNC patients were collected independently of the particulars of
the study. Dental extractions
were performed due to advanced caries or periodontal disease in
both teeth groups (control
and irradiated). Immediately after the extractions, teeth were
identified, placed in plastic
containers with 10% buffered formalin solution and fixed for at
least 72 h at 4 °C [3].
Eleven teeth affected by RRC were extracted from 11 patients
with head and neck
squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) who were subjected to clinical
radiation protocols with
tridimensional conformal HNRT in 6-mV linear accelerators on the
Synergy Platform (Elekta
AB, Stockholm, Sweden) with cumulative doses that ranged from 60
to 70 Gy (2 Gy/day, five
days per week). The tridimensional HNRT plan of the patients was
retrieved from the CMS
system XiO version 4.60 (Elekta CMS software, St. Louis, MS,
USA) to study the radiation
field and the total dose directed to the teeth [11]. Eleven
carious non-irradiated teeth
specimens were extracted from 11 head and neck SCC patients
before radiation treatment
during mouth conditioning protocols.
For clinical characterization of the patients, the electronic
medical record system was
consulted and the following data were collected: age, gender,
tumor topography, alcohol
consumption and smoking habit, tumor histological type, clinical
cancer stage (according the
American Joint Committee on Cancer), total radiation dose
prescribed to tumor treatment
(Gy), anatomic origin of extracted teeth, and time between the
end of HNRT and teeth
extraction.
Macroscopic analysis
All twenty-two carious teeth samples were divided into two
groups: control
(conventional caries; n=11) and irradiated (RRC; n=11),
cataloged and subjected to
photographic documentation. Teeth samples from both groups were
classified and matched by
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dental homology (anatomic group), clinical patterns of caries
progression established by the
Post-Radiation Dental Index (PRDI) [12] and microscopic depth of
carious invasion (refer to
microscopy analysis).
Demineralization and histological preparation
All specimens were cleaned up with manual periodontal curettes
to remove residual
soft tissues and decalcified in Ana Morse’s solution (equal
volumes of 20% sodium citrate
and 50% formic acid) at 4 °C for three weeks, with changes every
two days. The
decalcification was monitored and confirmed by weekly periapical
radiographs. Specimens
were sectioned along the longitudinal teeth axis through the
center of the deepest carious
lesions with the aid of a histologic disposable razor. The
samples were embedded in Paraplast
Plus® (Leica Biosystems Richmond, Inc., Richmond, IL, USA) to
produce 5-µm-thick
sections on a microtome (Leica, Nussloch, Germany) in silanized
slides for hematoxylin and
eosin (H&E) morphological evaluation.
Optical light microscopy analysis
An optical light microscope (OLM) (DM4000 B Leica, Wetzlar,
Germany) was used
for the micromorphological study of the cell populations of
dental pulp, including blood
vessels, neural elements, extracellular matrix components,
inflammation, depth of carious
invasion and reactionary dentin presence. Three demineralized
histological sections of each
specimen were analyzed and illustrative microscopic images were
captured.
Two previously calibrated oral pathologists analyzed the slides.
A descriptive analysis
was performed for the morphologic criteria [13,14] regarding
microscopic dentin and pulp
reactions to caries progression, which were evaluated in a
semi-quantitative way and
compared between groups: presence and preservation of hierarchy
of the dental pulp;
presence and preservation of blood vessels; pulp extracellular
matrix components (fibrosis,
calcification, necrosis or inflammation) and the presence of
reactionary dentin. Examiners
were instructed to come to a consensus in discordant cases.
Results were analyzed by using
descriptive statistics, absolute values, and percentages.
Mean microscopic depth of caries invasion was quantitatively
determined by
measuring the distance from the surface of the demineralized
dentin to the deepest point of
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caries-affected dentin in three demineralized histological
sections of each specimen, in both
groups, which was obtained in microns (µm) by using the software
LAS version 4.2.0 (Leica
Microsystems, Switzerland).
Statistical analysis
Morphological outcomes were descriptively analyzed and the
results generated were
analyzed by using descriptive statistics (Fisher's exact test),
absolute values, and percentages.
Mean values of microscopic depth of caries invasion for each
specimen were compared
between both groups using the Student’s t-test for independent
samples. The software IBM
SPSS Statistics for Windows version 22.0 (Armonk, NY, USA) was
used with the
significance level set at α=0.05.
RESULTS
Demographic features and clinicopathological data obtained from
the 22 patients are
described in Table 1. The control and irradiated groups
consisted of 6 molars (54.54%), 3
pre-molars (27.27%), 1 incisor (9.09%) and 1 canine (9.09%)
each. The mean time for teeth
extraction following HNRT was 33 months, ranging from 4 to 62
months. The mean dose
received by each tooth sample was 53.47 Gy, ranging from 38.79
to 69.33 Gy (Table 1).
Mean PRDI scores were 3.2 for the control group and 3.8 for the
irradiated group, with
values ranging from 2 to 5 in both groups. The dentin
demineralization patterns were similar
between the groups and marked by triangular demineralization
with the base at the tooth
surfaces and the apex pointing towards the pulp.
Demineralization depth due to caries
progression was controlled during specimens’ selection, leading
to a mean depth of 1,158.58
μm (ranging from 471,57 to 2,498.48 μm) in the control group and
1,056.89 μm (ranging
from 750,75 to 1,407.54 μm) in the irradiated group
(p=0.79).
All pulp specimens presented well-preserved polarized
odontoblastic layers arranged
in palisade, subodontoblastic cell-poor layers of Weil and
central zones with prominent
normal blood vessels, fibroblasts, and neural bundles. The
microscopic analysis revealed the
presence and the preservation of the pulp cellular layers
hierarchy in 8 (72.7%) cases for the
control group and 8 (72.7%) cases of the irradiated group
(p=0.28) (Figures 1A and 1B). In
the other cases of both groups, the presence and the
preservation of the pulp cellular layers
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hierarchy was changed because of calcification, diffuse chronic
inflammation and necrosis
associated to bacterial invasion. Blood vessels presence and
vascular architectural
preservation was observed in all (100%) samples of both
groups.
All samples from both groups (100%) presented well-preserved
subodontoblastic
layers, which were closely related to well-preserve odontoblasts
layers. Odontoblasts from all
samples were characterized by tall columnar cells arranged in
palisade and located at the
periphery of the dental pulp. Cell processes arising from the
odontoblasts' cell body could be
observed penetrating into the dentin and in close contact
between fibroblasts of all studied
samples (Figures 2A and 3A).
Superficial caries-infected dentin composed of disorganized
dentin and bacterial
colonies, as well as an inner demineralized layer with affected,
but not disrupted, dentin was
consistently observed in all studied specimens of both groups
(Figures 2B and 3B). Pulp
extracellular matrix components were similarly detected in both
groups and characterized by
focal areas of fibrosis: 8 (72.7%) control cases vs. 7 (63.6%)
irradiated cases (p=0.9);
calcification: 5 (45,5%) cases in each studied group (p = 0.34);
necrosis: 4 (36.4%) control
cases vs. 3 (27.3%) irradiated cases (p=1.00); and chronic
inflammation: 7 (63.6%) control
cases vs. 6 (55,5%) irradiated cases (p=0.28) (Figures 2C and
3C). Reactionary dentin
formation was detected underlying caries demineralization
fronts. The presence of reactionary
dentin was observed in 6 (55,5%) cases of the control group and
5 (45,5%) cases of the
irradiated group (p=0.28) (Figures 2D and 3D).
No significant difference was encountered between irradiated and
non-irradiated
groups in any of the analyzed parameters. No evidence of
abnormal cellular components or
architecture could be detected.
DISCUSSION
The potential of HNRT to cause direct harmful dentin and pulpal
effects that could
impair the response of the dentin-pulp complex to caries
progression is controversial. In this
context, Kataoka et al. [15] showed that the levels of pulp
oxygenation are decreased during
radiotherapy for malignant intraoral and oropharyngeal tumors.
More recently, the same
group of authors [16] demonstrated normal pulp oxygenation
levels after 4 to 6 years of the
conclusion of HNRT, suggesting that radiation therapy may not
have a long-term influence on
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pulp vitality. Influenced by their results, we decided to
perform a study to investigate
microscopic evidence that radiation therapy could be directly
injurious to the pulp and impair
response to caries progression by using teeth extracted after a
mean time of 33 months
following the conclusion of HNRT (ranging from 4 to 62
months).
The clinicopathological profile of patients enrolled in this
study is in accordance with
the traditional features of oral and oropharyngeal SCC patients
observed worldwide [17, 18],
which is marked by elderly male individuals, smokers and
drinkers with poor oral health
status who were diagnosed at late stages of tumor progression
[19, 20, 21].
The clinical aggressiveness and the potential for generalized
dental destruction have
been well documented in RRC patients and predominately linked to
post-radiation
hyposalivation [9, 22, 23]. However, observations based on in
vitro studies proposed that the
direct effects of HNRT on tooth-mineralized structure might also
be a significant causal factor
for RRC [5, 7, 12, 24].
Although the potential benefits in terms of reducing
treatment-associated toxicities,
the intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) technology is not
available in many centers of
the world, where tridimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DRT) is
still routinely used [25,
26, 27]. In this context, 3DRT was the technology used in all of
the patients investigated in
the present study and its use is still widely accepted because
no overall survival benefits have
been observed in HNC patients treated with IMRT [28]. Most
importantly, high doses of
radiation were directed to the irradiated group samples of the
current study (mean dose of
53.47Gy) and the influence of the radiation technique should not
be considered an issue in
terms of radiogenic effects, especially because a collaborative
study recently demonstrated
that IMRT and 3DRT deliver similar doses of radiation to the
teeth of HNC patients [29].
One of the limitations of the current study was the small number
of teeth specimens
analyzed; wherein larger sample sizes would probably lead to
more robust results. However, it
is important to clarify that this limitation was a consequence
of the strict methodological
design used, which was based on a paired-matched sampling
approach by teeth anatomic
origin, clinical stage of RRC progression and microscopic depths
of caries invasion. In
addition, this study relied on human in vivo irradiated teeth
(which are seldom collected
because of the risk of osteoradionecrosis) rather than in
samples irradiated in vitro.
Comparisons between studies that evaluated in vivo and in vitro
effects of radiotherapy on
dental pulp should be carefully established because in vitro
simulated radiotherapy does not
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represent real clinical conditions concerning the cariogenic
microenvironment or the
dosimetric standards for HNRT [11].
From a microscopic point of view, patterns of dentin
demineralization presented
normal architecture [13,14] and varied according to the PRDI in
both groups. The
microscopic analysis found homogeneous results between the
groups, showing no statistical
difference to the criteria of presence and preservation of
hierarchy of the dental pulp; presence
and preservation of blood vessels; pulp extracellular matrix
components (fibrosis,
calcification, necrosis or inflammation) and the presence of
reactionary dentin. Apparently,
this was the first study to compare RRC and conventional caries
specimens by using matched-
paired teeth groups.
Previous studies based on animal experimental models or with an
obsolete technique
of radiotherapy, also investigated pulpal reactions related to
radiation, but not to caries
progression, and concluded that only teeth subjected to high
doses of radiation (more than 50
Gy) showed alterations in the dental pulp tissue, including
fibrotic and inflammatory
degenerations [30, 31]. Conversely, a recent study failed to
detect morphological changes or
altered patterns of immunohistochemical expression of proteins
related to vascularization
(CD34 and smooth muscle actin), innervation (S-100, NCAM/CD56,
and neurofilament), and
extracellular matrix (vimentin) in dental pulp after in vivo
HNRT, showing broad preservation
of the microvascular and neural pulp components following high
doses of radiation [32].
In conclusion, the present study rejected the hypothesis that
HNRT is able to impair
the micromorphological pulp reactions to RRC progression.
Therefore, direct effects of
radiation may not be regarded as an independent factor to
explain the rapid onset and
aggressive clinical patterns of RRC progression.
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COMPLIANCE WITH ETHICAL STANDARDS
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Funding
- Research Foundation (FAPESP) processes numbers 2013/18402-8
and
2012/06138-
- Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education
Personnel
(CAPES/PROEX) process number 758/2012.
Ethical approval
All procedures performed in studies involving human participants
were in accordance
with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national
research committee and with the
1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable
ethical standards.
Informed consent
Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants
included in the study.
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TABLES
Table 1. Clinicopathological profile of studied patients
Irra
dia
ted
Gro
up
Patient Age Gender Tobacco Alcohol Site T N M CH RDT Dose Dental
Dose
1 58 M Yes Yes Tongue 3 0 0 Yes 3D 70 Gy 67.83 Gy
2 65 M Yes Yes Oropharynx 4 3 0 Yes 3D 70 Gy 38.79 Gy
3 52 F Yes Yes Tongue 4 2 0 No 3D 70 Gy 59.35 Gy
4 54 M Yes Yes Tongue 2 3 0 Yes 3D 70 Gy 46.71 Gy
5 56 F No No Nasopharynx 4 1 0 Yes 3D 70 Gy 63.83 Gy
6 65 F Yes Yes Tongue 3 0 0 No 3D 60 Gy 40.04 Gy
7 65 F Yes Yes Tongue 4 0 0 No 3D 70 Gy 69.33 Gy
8 66 M Yes Yes Tongue 4 2 0 Yes 3D 70 Gy 46.71 Gy
9 62 M Yes Yes Oropharynx 2 2 0 Yes 3D 70 Gy 53.11 Gy
10 47 M Yes Yes Oropharynx 1 2 0 Yes 3D 70 Gy 51.81 Gy
11 54 M Yes Yes Oropharynx 4 1 0 Yes 3D 70 Gy 51.81 Gy
Con
trol
Gro
up
1 52 M Yes Yes Nasopharynx 3 3 0 - - - -
2 68 M Yes No Larynx 4 3 0 - - - -
3 76 M Yes Yes Submandibular gland 3 2 0 - - - -
4 55 M Yes Yes Hypopharynx 1 2 0 - - - -
5 60 M Yes Yes Larynx 4 3 0 - - - -
6 53 M Yes Yes Oral Cavity 4 2 0 - - - -
7 55 M Yes Yes Tongue 2 0 0 - - - -
8 61 M Yes Yes Soft Palate 4 0 0 - - - -
9 51 F Yes Yes Tongue 4 1 0 - - - -
10 48 M Yes Yes Oral Cavity 1 2 0 - - - -
11 61 M Yes Yes Soft Palate 1 2 0 - - - -
M: Male; F: Female; CH: Chemotherapy; RDT: Radiotherapy; 3D:
Tridimensional conformal radiotherapy; Dental Dose: mean radiation
dose
delivered to each tooth.
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FIGURES
Figure 1. Microscopic overview of irradiated teeth crowns
showing preservation of the dental
pulp layers hierarchy (Hematoxylin and Eosin-stained sections,
2X magnification). A.
Irradiated molar sample. B. Irradiated premolar sample.
Figure 2. Control group samples exhibiting preservation of the
dental pulp layers hierarchy
(Hematoxylin and Eosin-stained sections). A. Dentin (D),
predentin (PD), odontoblasts (O)
and pulp central region (C). B. Patterns of bacterial invasion
of the dentin. C. Chronic
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inflammation affecting irradiated pulp tissue. D. Preservation
of the dental pulp
micromorphology and dentin-pulp complex reactions to caries.
Dentin (D), reactionary dentin
(RD), predentin (PD), odontoblastic layer (O), cell-poor zone
(CP), cell-rich zone (CR) and
central region (C) with preserved fibroblasts, and vascular
bundles.
Figure 3. Irradiated group samples exhibiting preservation of
the dental pulp layers hierarchy
(Hematoxylin and Eosin-stained sections). A. Presence of
preserved neural vascular bundles,
dystrophic calcification, and hyperemia in irradiated pulp
tissue. Dentin (D), predentin (PD),
odontoblasts (O) and pulp central region (C). B. Superficial
caries-infected dentin composed
of bacterial colonies and disorganized dentin. Inner
demineralized layer with affected dentin
showing normal patterns of bacterial invasion of the irradiated
dentin. C. Chronic
inflammation affecting irradiated pulp tissue. D. Preservation
of the dental pulp layers
hierarchy and dentin-pulp complex reactions to caries.
Reactionary dentin (RD), cell-poor
zone (CP), cell-rich zone (CR), central region (C), odontoblasts
(O), predentin (PD), and
dentin (D). Note the presence of preserved fibroblasts and
neural vascular bundles.
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3 CONCLUSÃO
Não foram identificadas diferenças microscópicas significativas
entre os padrões de
resposta do complexo dentina-polpa entre dentes afetados por
cárie convencional e
CRR.
Este estudo rejeitou a hipótese de que a RDT é capaz de
modificar diretamente as
respostas micromorfológicas do complexo dentina-polpa à
progressão da CRR.
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ANEXOS
Anexo 1 – Parecer Consubstanciado do CEP
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Anexo 2 - Certificado de submissão ao periódico