Dental performance in prevention and treatment of oral complications in children and adolescents oncological patients
Children and adolescents are at high risk of developing oral complications during and after chemotherapy and radiotherapy.The aim of this paper is discuss the main oral complications, dental management and the performance of the dentist before cancer treatment for children and adolescents.It is a literature review, which the descriptors “pediatrics”, “oral manifestations” and “antineoplastic protocols” were used to search in the databases of MEDLINE/PubMED and SciELO.