title: Oral and dental aspects of chronic renal failure.
abstract: The present article reviews, in detail, the current knowledge of the oral and dental aspects of chronic renal failure (CRF). Worldwide, increasing numbers of persons have CRF; thus, oral health care staffs are increasingly likely to provide care for patients with such disease. Chronic renal failure can give rise to a wide spectrum of oral manifestations, affecting the hard or soft tissues of the mouth. The majority of affected individuals have disease that does not complicate oral health care; nevertheless, the dental management of such individuals does require that the clinician understand the multiple systems that can be affected. The clinician should also consider the adverse side-effects of drug therapy and appropriate prescribing, in view of compromised renal clearance.
authors.affiliation: Oral Medicine, Division of Maxillofacial Diagnostic, Medical & Surgical Sciences, Eastman Dental Institute for Oral Health Care Sciences, UCL, University of London, 256 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8LD, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Proctor
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stein
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moles
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Porter
mesh_terms: D017742:Dental Care for Chronically Ill; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000009:adverse effects; D014076:Tooth Diseases / Q000209:etiology*