Dental and Periodontal Status of Patients With Sjögren's Syndrome.

Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is a rare chronic systemic autoimmune disease characterized by destruction of the exocrine glands, including the salivary glands leading to hyposiala. The lack of saliva exposes the patient to dental caries, and dental wear although this has rarely been described in Sjögren's patients. Moreover, these patients seem to have more inflammation and gingival recession, but not clinical attachment loss, although this has not been clearly identified in the literature.

The present research focuses on the characterization of tooth wear and gingival recession prevalence in patients with Sjögren syndrome. A correlation of this parameters with salivary parameters (Xerostomia Inventory to assess the dryness, unstimulated salivary rate, stimulated salivary rate, pH and buffer capacity) will be assessed.

The salivary samples will be kept in a biological collection within the URP2496 for later cross-sectional research purposes to identify salivary changes associated with increased risk of dental wear, dental caries, periodontal wear or periodontal inflammation (biological collection CB-SJO).

This is a descriptive, prospective, open-label, non-interventional, single-center study with collection of salivary samples (CB-SJO) from a sample of patients with Sjögren's disease as part of the patient's routine care.

Patients will be recruited in the oral medicine department of the AP-HP Charles Foix hospital (Ivry/seine).

The time-line of the research is consistent with the usual patient management in oral medicine department. As Sjogren is a rare disease, we plan an inclusion period of 60 months. There is 60 months (i.e. 5 years) of follow-up, this means a total research duration of 120 months (i.e. 10 years)

Inclusion criteria

• Patient with Sjögren Syndrome
• Patient > 18 years old
• Patient affiliated to a social security system, beneficiary or beneficiary of a right other than AME
• Patient who speaks and understands French well enough to be able to read and understand the study information note.
• Patient who does not object to his participation in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Patient having expressed his opposition to participate in the research