Oral and dental aspects of chronic renal failure.
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.
Proctor
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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.
Kumar
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Stein
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Moles
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Porter
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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*