AIDS & Oral Health NS Yadav, Rupam Sinha
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1 AIDS and Oral Health
2 AIDS and Oral Health
NS Yadav MDS Director, PG Studies and Professor of Oral Medicine and Radiology Rama Dental College and Hospital Kanpur 208 024 e-mail: drnsyadav@yahoo.co.in Formerly Asst. Professor, Govt. Dental College, Hyderabad Principal, JSS Dental College, Mysore Principal, Army College of Dental Sciences, Secunderabad Principal, Peoples College of Dental Sciences, Bhopal Principal, Panineeya Inst. of Dental Sciences, Hyderabad and Rupam Sinha MDS Reader in Oral Medicine and Radiology Gurunanak Inst. of Dental Sciences Kolkata
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4Preface
AIDS was first recognized in early eighties. The cases were not very common. The etiological agent was identified by mid eighties. It is now accepted fact that HIV is the causative agent. HIV infection is a chronic illness which may present a history spread over for more than a decade. The symptoms may appear early in a few and late to very late in others.
Mode of transmission is mostly by sex. The other being through blood transfusion. As it is most often transmitted sexually, the disease is seen in young individuals.
Infected individuals not only suffer from its manifestations but also from social stigma attached to it. This is because of lack of education and awareness of AIDS among the people. Task of managing the patients is manifold. There is enormous responsibility on medical, dental professionals, health workers and social workers to educate the facts and bring about a lot of awareness in masses. There is a great need in educating on the preventive measures and precautions pertaining to HIV infections.
Our aim in bringing out this book is mainly to compile the basic concepts on HIV and AIDS. However, information on this topic may require updating very often than on other diseases, as there is rapid flow of the information on pathogenesis and management.
Dental surgeons have very important and significant role in the early diagnosis of the condition as the oral manifestations and opportunistic infections may be found early.
NS Yadav
Rupam Sinha
5Acknowledgements
At the outset we wish to place on record the special and sincere thanks to his holiness Sri Sri SriDesikendra Swamiji, Presiding deity of Suttur mutt, Mysore and the President of JSS Mahavidyapeetha, Mysore for his blessings.
We thank the management of JSS Dental College, Mysore, especially Mr BN Betkarur IAS (Retd), executive secretary for giving us the opportunity to use the information and clinical photographs obtained during our association with the college.
We wish to thank Dr Karthikeya Patil, Dr Mahima Patil, Dr Jai Shanker and Dr Veena of the department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, JSS Dental College for their contribution in active participation in discussions in preparation of script of the book.
We also wish to acknowledge the help and encouragement given to us from time to time by the management of Rama Dental College, Kanpur, in bringing out this book.
We wish to thank our family members for their enormous support extended to us.
We thank Dr Naveen S Yadav and Dr Vrinda who have helped us in going through the script and suggesting necessary corrections.
We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to Mr Tarun Duneja, General Manager (Publishing) and his colleagues at M/s Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd to bring out this book.