Periodontal disease in hiv patients
International Journal of Development Research
Periodontal disease in hiv patients
Received 29th August 2017; Received in revised form 18th September, 2017; Accepted 14th October, 2017; Published online 29th November, 2017
Copyright © 2017, Letícia S. Estefaneli et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper aims to report the case of periodontitis in a HIV-positive and smoker patient. A case attended at the UNORP dentistry college in the clinic of the periodontia discipline between August and September of 2016 that became a research. Procedures were performed to reduce the inflammation caused by periodontal disease in order to lower the patient's CD4, ie decrease viral load. Due to the patient's lack of cooperation, the expected results were not achieved because she smoked and did not stop during the treatment. There was no improvement in the patient's CD4 level, but periodontal disease was controlled. The patient is in periodontal maintenance phase.
