TY - JOUR
KW - Dental caries
KW - leprosy
KW - PCR
KW - Periodontium
KW - Vaccine
AU - Bommanavar S
AU - Hosmani J
AU - Khan S
AU - Bhandi S
AU - Patil S
AU - Alamir A
AU - Sarode S
AU - Awan K
AB - <p>The 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.</p>
BT - Disease-a-month : DM
C1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31813526
DA - 12/2019
DO - 10.1016/j.disamonth.2019.100918
J2 - Dis Mon
LA - eng
N2 - <p>The 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.</p>
PY - 2019
EP - 100918
T2 - Disease-a-month : DM
TI - Current updates on dental perspectives of leprosy - Revisited.
SN - 1557-8194
ER -