[Buccal manifestations of AIDS]. / Manifestari bucale în SIDA.

The disease determined by HIV, increasingly more frequent, is affecting certain groups of patients (homosexuals, drug addicts, polytransfused subjects). The clinical picture at the onset is not specific. Later on in the course of the disease the immunological capacity of defense of the organism is affected and a series of symptoms including fever, infections with bacteria, lymph-node inflammation, encephalopathies, Kaposi sarcoma will develop. Apparently buccal infections with fungi are the earliest manifestations, and they are followed, by order of frequency, by herpetic lesions, "hairy" leucoplasia, tumours. Transmission through the saliva from the patient to the stomatologist of the HIV infection is theoretically possible due to scratches on the physicians' hands. Prophylactic measures are described for the stomatologists treating AIDS patients, as well as for the sterilization of the instruments.

[Perimaxillary suppurations in the stomatological practice]. / Supuratiile perimaxilare in practica stomatologica.

Perimaxillary suppurations hold an important place in the field of buccomaxillo-facial pathology, by their frequency (which is almost 12%), and by severity. Antibiotic therapy, which has modified for a period of time the evolution and the frequency of these affections, appears to be less successful of late, and, by contrast, we have noted the development of new types of suppuration much more severe, and more difficult to control from the therapeutical viewpoint. The main etiology is represented by dento-parodontal lesions, and the complex treatment of the initial forms of peri-radicular septic processes, and of the parodontal ones is recommended strongly. Evaluations are made concerning the antibiotic therapy, even in those conditions when there is no available facility for making antibiograms. With regard to the severe forms of suppuration various problems are discussed, with the aim to define diagnostic, surgical and general therapy aspects.