| Autor: |
el-Din MS; Oral Medicine and Periodontology, Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine, Cairo University., el-Refai MI, el-Kafrawi AO, el-Badawi S |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Egyptian dental journal [Egypt Dent J] 1993 Jan; Vol. 39 (1), pp. 387-94. |
| Abstrakt: |
Patients undergoing radiotherapy for malignant tumors of the head and neck invariably develop extensive oral and dental diseases particularly when the major salivary glands are within the radiation fields. Unless the patient receives a strict oral hygiene home care and the teeth are protected by topical application of fluoride gel, caries or gingival disease onset inevitably follows radiation induced xerostomia is. The importance of saliva as a controlling factor in the development of oral diseases is underscored by the dramatic increase in dental decay and gingival diseases that inevitably follows the surgical extirpation of the major salivary glands in animals and the onset of xerostomia in man. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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