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Oral medicine

T A Bissell1, V A Doppalapudi

  • 1Department of Periodontology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA 02115.

Current Opinion in Periodontology
|January 1, 1994
PubMed
Summary

Dentists must understand medical conditions and treatments to provide optimal oral care. This review explores links between systemic diseases and oral health, offering insights into managing oral manifestations.

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Area of Science:

  • Oral medicine
  • Systemic disease manifestations
  • Dental implications of medical treatments

Background:

  • Dentistry requires understanding medical conditions and their oral impacts.
  • Periodic reviews enhance practitioner anticipation of patient needs and interdisciplinary collaboration.
  • Recent advances illuminate the relationship between medical and oral diseases.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review recent advances in understanding the relationship between medical and oral diseases.
  • To suggest therapeutic regimens for oral manifestations of systemic conditions.
  • To highlight the dentist's role in identifying systemic disease signs in the oral cavity.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of recent advances in medical-oral disease relationships.
  • Analysis of therapeutic strategies for oral manifestations.
  • Discussion of systemic disease presentations in oral tissues.

Main Results:

  • Diabetes is linked to periodontal disease; research explores immune system and microbial roles in pathogenesis.
  • HIV-associated oral manifestations present treatment challenges.
  • Cancer therapies (radiation, chemotherapy) significantly affect oral tissues, necessitating prophylactic measures.
  • Systemic diseases can manifest subtly in the oral environment, mimicking inflammatory conditions.

Conclusions:

  • Understanding systemic disease is crucial for dental practice.
  • Modulating host response mechanisms shows promise for treating inflammatory periodontal diseases.
  • Prophylactic measures and patient education can mitigate oral side effects of cancer therapy.
  • Dentists must evaluate oral lesions for potential signs of more severe systemic conditions.

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