Baltic Dental and Maxillofacial Journal
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March, 2015, Vol. 17, No. 1

CONTENTS

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

Heritability estimates of dental arch parameters in Lithuanian twins
Vilma Švalkauskienė, Kastytis Šmigelskas, Loreta Šalomskienė, Irena Andriuškevičiūtė, Aurelija Šalomskienė, Arūnas Vasiliauskas, Antanas Šidlauskas

3-8

Antimicrobial activity of silver and gold in toothpastes: A comparative analysis
Jonas Junevičius, Juozas Žilinskas, Kęstutis Česaitis, Gabrielė Česaitienė, Darius Gleiznys, Žaneta Maželienė

9-12

A revised approach of human mastication function rehabilitation through monotypical mastication analysis
Gediminas Skirbutis, Algimantas Surna, Rimantas Barauskas, Rimas Surna, Alvydas Gleiznys

13-20

REVIEWS

Oral manifestations of HIV disease: A review
Daiva Aškinytė, Raimonda Matulionytė, Arūnas Rimkevičius

21-28

CASE REPORTS

Odontogenic maxillary sinusitis obscured by midfacial trauma
Regimantas Simuntis, Ričardas Kubilius, Silvija Ryškienė, Saulius Vaitkus

29-32

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Oral manifestations of HIV disease: A review

Daiva Aškinytė, Raimonda Matulionytė, Arūnas Rimkevičius

Summary

The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to plague the world. Evaluation of oral health status is important at every stage in the management of HIV disease. Oral health services and professionals can contribute effectively to the control of HIV/AIDS through health education, patient care, infection control and surveillance. Dental professionals have an important task of determining accurate diagnosis of oral manifestations and choosing proper treatment for each case. This review provides information on HIV associated orofacial lesions, their clinical presentation and up to date treatment strategies.

Key words: oral lesions, HIV, AIDS, oral health care.

Received: 14 09 2014

Accepted for publishing: 25 03 2015


1Institute of Dentistry, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

2Department of Infectious, chest diseases, dermatovenerology and allergology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

Daiva Aškinytė1 – MD

Raimonda Matulionytė2 – MD, PhD

Arūnas Rimkevičius1 – MD

Address correspondence to Daiva Aškinytė, Slucko 1-60, Vilnius, 09311, Lithuania.

E-mail address: daiva.askinyte@gmail.com