Meeting abstract

Dental Treatment in Patients with Kidney Diseases

N. Sulejmanagić
S. Prohić
S. Šečić
S. Mišeljić

Abstract

Every dentist in dental practice occasionally has to deal with patients with seriously disturbed renal function.
Kidney diseases whether hereditary or acquired, whether acute or cronic, imply a number of dysfunctions in the organism such as prolonged bleeding time, high blood pressure, infection tendency etc., which are a consideralbe threat from potentional complication during dental interventions in these patients.
The goal of this article is to show the actual modern doctrine of dental interventions in patients with kidney diseases. That includes dental procedures and preoperative treatment in patients with chronic kidney diseases, nephritic syndrome, patients on dialysis, and patients with transplanted kidney.
Cooperation between the dentist and nephrologist is imperative for adequate dental procedure in patients with seriously disturbed kidney function.

Keywords

kidney disease; dialysis; transplantation; dental treatment

Hrčak ID:

3471

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/3471

Publication date:

15.9.2003.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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