RESUMO
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.
Assuntos
Cárie Dentária/epidemiologia , Hanseníase/patologia , Mycobacterium leprae/isolamento & purificação , Periodonto/microbiologia , Carga Bacteriana/tendências , História do Século XIX , Humanos , Imunidade Celular/fisiologia , Hanseníase/classificação , Hanseníase/história , Hanseníase/microbiologia , Mycobacterium leprae/metabolismo , Doenças Periodontais/complicações , Periodonto/patologia , PrevalênciaRESUMO
Leprosy is a chronic granulomatous infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae, a bacillus that presents a peculiar tropism for the skin and peripheral nerves. Leprosy instigates various types of clinical presentation and exerts influence on the patient's immune response. The clinical gamut of leprosy ranges from the tuberculoid form (TT) to the disseminative and progressive lepromatous form (LL). Oral lesions are uncommon but, when present, occur in the lepromatous form and are broadly divided into nonspecific and specific lesions. In this article, we present a case of leprosy of the hard palate in a 25-year-old male. The case is been presented for its rarity.