HCG -dental side affects?

[SeattleRDH]

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I had a patient today who has been taking HCG drops under her tongue for the last 40 days as part of a fad diet. I've not seen her before, and she is on a 3 mo perio recall, but she had this strange heavy yellow-orange calculus from #20 to #29 (buccal and lingual) which she claimed she had never had before.

Has anyone had experience with patients taking HCG?

 

[DrJeff]

I had a patient today who has been taking HCG drops under her tongue for the last 40 days as part of a fad diet. I've not seen her before, and she is on a 3 mo perio recall, but she had this strange heavy yellow-orange calculus from #20 to #29 (buccal and lingual) which she claimed she had never had before.

Has anyone had experience with patients taking HCG?

Now that you say that. I've had 5 of my employees partake in the HCG diet craze in the last few months - worked great and they all lost weight until the ended phase 1 of the diet (HCG spray plus a strict 500 calorie a day diet - amazing a person looses a bunch of weight on 500 calories a day, who would have ever thought that ) but then they started to put some weight back on as they started to consume more calories, suprise suprise 😉

3 of they 5 have had prophies so far since they've been on the HCG diet and I did notice, but not really think twice about it, an increase in calculus build up over their "usual" baseline amounts. Coincidence?? Who knows.

It will be interesting to see with that patient of your at her 3 month recall if she's one of those habitual calculus formers just to get a baseline on her?? The other thing too to consider, is that if she's been on the same "hard core" phase I HCG diet that some of my office staff did, the the types of food, let alone the quantity of food is different - more softer fruits and veggies and some chicken instead of the typical coarser diet that most people eat, and the lack of a decent volume of coarser food regularly cascading over the enamel surfaces, which will help remove some of the regular soft plaque that forms might be an issue too (just like in people who ONLY ever eat on 1 side and have "questionable" hygiene, their primary chewing side is pristine and their non chewing side is basically 1 giant calculus deposit.