Providing dental care for patients with Huntington's disease.
This paper describes the genetic condition Huntington's disease and its clinical relevance to dentists. The treatment of two patients with the condition is described: one under general anaesthesia, the other with intravenous sedation.


CONCLUSIONS
Dentists may have patients who develop Huntington's disease in later life, so this paper will help them consider the longer term effects of this disease and help in planning dental care.
Boyle
Carole A
CA
Department of Sedation and Special Care Dentistry, King's College London Dental Institute at Guy's, King's College and St Thomas' Hospitals, Floor 26, Guy's Tower, London SE1 9RT, UK.
Frölander
Caroline
C
Manley
Graham
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D000368:Aged; D000766:Anesthesia, Dental; D000769:Anesthesia, Inhalation; D016292:Procedural Sedation; D017742:Dental Care for Chronically Ill; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000628:therapy; D003793:Dental Restoration, Permanent; D012534:Dental Scaling; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006816:Huntington Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009910:Oral Hygiene; D014081:Tooth Extraction