On this week’s episode of Fast Facts – Perio Edition your host, Katrina Sanders, RDH discusses patients that present with a gingival manifestation associated with viral origin.
Quotes:
“Speaking of fever, another very common viral condition that we can see in the oral cavity is primary herpetic gingivostomatitis.”
“The latent form is a form of shingles or herpes zoster and this type of shingles observation, of course, we oftentimes see in an older patient population, oftentimes observed by a unilateral pain. We see this as well in the oral cavity.”
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Sources:
Chapple ILC, MealeyBL, et al. Periodontal health and gingival diseases and conditions on anintact and a reduced periodontium: Consensus report of workgroup 1 of the 2017 WorldWorkshop on the Classification of Periodontal and Peri-Implant Diseases and Conditions.JPeriodontol.2018;89 (Suppl 1): S74-S84