[Oral cavity health condition of HIV carriers]

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a disease, which damages the cell immunity of an organism. Changes in the oral cavity have an important role in the diagnostics of contagion. The aim of the paper was the assessment of the state of the oral cavity of the patients who had HIV. They had also antiretroviral and immunomodulating treatment.

90 people, aged from 20 to 60, residents of Zachodniopomorskie region, were members of the examined group. They were divided into three groups. The intensity of the dental caries was assessed and an average PUW number. The history of the previous dental services was done. Also patients' stomatological needs were assessed. Medical services were assessed according to index of stomatological treatment and its structure. Additionally, oral cavity was evaluated with the use of plaque index. State and treatment needs of the paradontium were evaluated with the use of CPITN index.

The indicator of caries, cavity and filling average values were statistically not essential in all the groups. Caries active dental caries was present in every group. The average number of extracted teeth was higher than in the control group. It is statistically essential. The average number of filled teeth of people with and without treatment was lower than in the control group. That was statistically essential. The rise of the medical services structure values index shows that the number of tooth extracting services is becoming proportionally higher to other effective stomatological services. The gained results show the inadequate stomatological treatment of the infected. The level of hygiene was higher in the group of not infected people than in the group of the people with HIV, who were undergoing antiretroviral treatment.

Patients with HIV were characterised by the low level of hygiene of the oral cavity and by the bad state of teeth. Extractions of the teeth of the infected people were the most often stomatological services. Too low oral cavity hygiene of the people with HIV influences the state of their teeth. The highest requirements of the paradontium stomatological services are in the group of patients who are taking antiretroviral medicines.