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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



	Baltic Dental and Maxillofacial Journal

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 © 2015 Stomatologija		Stomatologija 2015; 17 (1): 21-8 321 KB 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