ORAL CAVITY LESIONS IN PEDIATRIC HIV

Drăghici M. ¹, Oprea Alina ², Toader Mioriţa ², Toader C. ^3
1 Dentirad Hospital Ploieşti
² Emergency Children Hospital “Grigore Alexandrescu” Bucharest
³ INNBCV Bucharest

Abstract

The oral cavity represents one of the segments which isearlier and more frequently affected during HIV infection in a child case. Dystrophies and dental dysplasia for children with HIV infection occur more frequently. Also, the shape, the layout and number of teeth are often affected in these children. There are studies that show a higher frequency of dental caries predominately in temporary dentition of these patients. But there are statistics that the dentition would not be affected by HIV, but by completely different factors such as genetic factors, local hygiene, socio-economic factors etc. The authors present an etiologic classification of dental manifestations in HIV infection.