Dental erosion of intrinsic origin. - ROS - 2014 - Tome 43 - N°1

Dental erosion is sometimes connected to an acid attack of intrinsic origin. In this case, some pathologies requiring a multidisciplinary approach are involved. It may be the gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and regurgitations which concern both odontology and gastroenterology, spontaneous vomiting due chronic alcoholism that concerns addictology or some eating disorders (anorexia-bulimia, bulimia nervosa) which is a matter for the psychiatrist. The dental practitioner who is often the first witness of the oral consequences of these pathologies must thus know how to detect the lesions, make the differential diagnosis with other types of wear and possibly send the patients to other specialists. He also has to choose a therapeutic plan adapted to the diversity of the lesions.