subject: Dentist Huntersville NC Few things you should know about Dental Health and AIDS [print this page] Dentist Huntersville NC Few things you should know about Dental Health and AIDS
HIV is the most dreaded epidemic that is growing in huge proportions all over the world and is one of the major killers in current times.Caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus -HIV, the body looses its immunity and becomes susceptible to infections and falls pray to diseases very easily.
When AIDS strikes an individual, his dental health is one of the earliest areas that get effected with infection. Human mouth is full of micro organisms which makes it a fertile ground for infections especially when AIDS has attacked the body.
In fact it has been studied extensively and understood by researchers that often mouth is the first organ where AIDS virus strikes and thereby the patients get prone to many of the diseases such as Oral Hairy Leukoplakia, Oral Candidiasis, Oral pigmentation, Gum Disease and Kaposi's Sarcoma etc.
It is believed that Oral Hairy Leukoplakia is caused only due to AIDS in individuals. When ever you find this condition in someone, we may assume that that individual is suffering from full blown AIDS. The white lesion that appears on sides of tongue, palate, cheeks which cannot be rubbed off suddenly is called OHL
It is believed that over ninety percent of people with AIDS also get affected with Oral Candidiasis.This is a fungal infection that is found to increase in proportions when the body immunity is down due to AIDS virus. The infection occurs on palate or the tongue and rarely on the lip corners too.
AIDS causes pigmentation of the teeth cavity which is very visible. The brownish black color pigmentation is seen on gums, tongue and palate, caused due to consumption of ketoconazole and Zidovudine drugs.
Gum diseases like Gingivitis and Periodontitis , researchers say effect the persons who are suffering from full blown AIDS . The infection of the gums and the tissues surrounding the teeth causes pus formation, bleeding as well as bad breath and easily spreads to other parts of the body too. Anti Retroviral Therapy is used to treat AIDS patients effected with this disease.
Kapodi's Sarcoma is a malignant tumor found on the palate and the gums, found in most of the cases in homosexual males. This condition is more frequently occurring in males and though it is existent, is very rarely found in females.
All of these problems are found attacking those individuals who are suffering with AIDS. The important fact of knowing more about these diseases is to be able to take preventive action to avoid such occurrences and thereby ensure you averts and manage the risk of such occurrences.
Taste is one of the important senses that are central to our digestive system which uses the food as the primary source of energy to feed all the tissues and body parts. We taste the food thorough the taste buds and chew and bite the food with our teeth and mix it properly before passing it down the digestive track for further processing. In case where the mouth gets into a problem with dental hygiene and is not able to do its function properly, the entire food digestive system gets effected and in turn weakens the body. When the patient is suffering from AIDS, this weakness can be very damaging.
Oral hygiene becomes a very important part of the preventive effort. You will be able to block all these problems from effecting you by maintaining your oral hygiene daily.
