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Disease-a-month : DM · Jul 2020
Review Historical ArticleCurrent updates on dental perspectives of leprosy - Revisited.
- Sushma Bommanavar, Jagadish Hosmani, Samar Khan, Shilpa Bhandi, Shankargouda Patil, Abdul Wahab H Alamir, Sachin Sarode, and Kamran Habib Awan.
- Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, School of Dental Sciences, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, "deemed to be university", Karad, Maharashtra, India.
- Dis Mon. 2020 Jul 1; 66 (7): 100918.
AbstractThe present review summarizes the current updates on dental perspectives on leprosy and the affording factors that are responsible for the prevalence of caries and periodontal diseases in leprosy. It also highlights immunopathological phenomena and reactional episodes of leprosy that occur due to daedal interactions between the perio-odontopathic bacteria and M. leprae. In addition, a brief introduction, historiography, classification and clinicopathological aspects are also been covered.Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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