According to senior experts, patients with chronic hepatitis, such as lips and buccal mucosa, have lost their bright colors in the past, which may indicate that liver cirrhosis is approaching; dental caries suddenly appear in the mouth, or the original mild caries develops rapidly, which is also a sign of poor liver disease; The occurrence of periodontitis and alveolar pyorrhea, though not improved and gradually aggravated after repeated treatment, also means that liver disease is progressing. Due to the obvious deficiency of B vitamins caused by cirrhosis, it can also cause glossitis, atrophy of tongue, gingival bleeding, halitosis, parotid gland swelling and other oral abnormalities.
No matter which type of liver disease it belongs to, once the above changes appear in the mouth, it is necessary to go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time.
Through the compensation of liver function, people can judge the severity and prognosis of cirrhosis. The liver function of compensatory cirrhosis is normal or basically normal, which can maintain the normal metabolism of the body; the liver function of decompensated cirrhosis is obviously decreased, which can not maintain the normal metabolism of the body, and jaundice, ascites, hypoproteinemia, liver coma, etc.