title: Infectious and sexually transmitted diseases: implications for dental public health.
abstract: The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has stimulated renewed attention toward infectious diseases and dental public health. Currently, AIDS is defined as individuals with Kaposi's sarcoma and/or pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and/or other life-threatening opportunistic infections (e.g., specific forms of tuberculosis or meningitis, candidal esophagitis), and associated immunosuppression that cannot be accounted for by another disease process and/or medications. As of January 1986, the AIDS epidemic has afflicted over 16,000 persons in the United States and has taken over 8,000 lives. All present indications point toward a much more extensive epidemic based on the lack of a vaccine and effective forms of treatment, the large number of carriers in the population, and variable modes of transmission.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Silverman
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D005260:Female; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D011636:Public Health Dentistry; D012306:Risk; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D013242:Sterilization