Pediatric Oral Medicine & HPV Infection – Two Topics –

Pediatric Oral Medicine
A variety of soft and hard tissue abnormalities of local, systemic, or developmental origin could affect the orofacial region in the pediatric population often causing worried parents to seek advice from dental professionals. While some of these oral findings are benign in nature, others may flag an underlying systemic disease or genetic anomaly. It is, therefore, critical for dental providers to be able to
differentiate between oral lesions of different etiology.

Mucocutaneous Manifestations of HPV Infection & Implications for Dentistry
Human papillomavirus belongs to ancient papillomaviridae family of viruses that date back 330 million years. Papillomaviruses infect vertebrates and have strict species specificity. Human papillomaviruses have predilection for mucocutaneus tissues and are capable of hijacking cellular machinery of the host to their advantage to developing latent or subclinical infection as well as clinical disease.