title: Managing HIV. Part 5: Treating secondary outcomes. 5.2 HIV and oral disease.
abstract: Oral manifestations of HIV infection often represent the first clinical signs of this disease. Early management of oral lesions reduces the prospect of what would normally be routine procedures in the mouth becoming compromised and complicated when the immune system is further suppressed.
authors.affiliation: St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Foltyn
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marriott
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections; D002180:Candidiasis, Oral / Q000209:etiology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology; D014987:Xerostomia / Q000209:etiology