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Oral osteomyelitis: pre-AIDS manifestation or strange coincidence?
M Harel-Raviv1, M Gorsky, I Lust
1Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, McGill University Montreal Quebec, Canada.
Dental Update
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
A bizarre and unexplained localized osteomyelitis was discovered in the mandible of an otherwise apparently healthy 36-year-old man. This strange oral manifestation was followed 2 years later by a diagnosis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, which indicated full-blown AIDS. Could osteomyelitis of the mandible be an alarming oral manifestation of AIDS before the disease is manifested in other ways?