[Clinico-diagnostic and odonto-stomatologic therapeutic problems in patients with HIV infection and AIDS]

During the last decade, scientific studies and new knowledges concerning HIV infection and AIDS, have constituted one of the main topics for discussion in the fields of biology and medicine. AIDS is a serious disease and it is unfortunately characterized by a very high death rate. In spite of all the efforts deployed by researchers and scientists, there is at present no effective therapy capable of restoring a proper immunological balance in the affected subjects. In the field of odontostomatology all diagnostic, clinical or therapeutic operation in HIV patients, is to be considered as particularly complex and characterized by some degree of real risk. It is therefore necessary to develop a whole set of health-care models which must provide a broad range of different interventions in order to assure a rational and technically profitable service. We point to the various diagnostic, clinical and therapeutic methods and approaches to be recommended in the case of HIV and AIDS patients, and we add some reference to health care activities at the "San Luigi Center" of the Scientific Istitute San Raffaele Hospital in Milan.