Oro-Dental Health Status and Salivary Characteristics in Children with Chronic Renal Failure

Abstract

Children suffering from decreased renal function may demand unique considerations regarding
special oral and dental conditions they are encountered to. It is mentioned that
renal function deterioration may affect the hard or soft tissues of the mouth. Having
knowledge about the high prevalence of dental defects, calculus, gingival hyperplasia,
modified salivary composition and tissue responses to the dental plaque may aid the physician
and the dentist to help nurture the patient with chronic renal failure through the crisis,
with an aesthetically satisfying and functioning dentition.