Brain abscess following dental implant placement via crestal sinus lift - a case report.

Purpose: To describe a rare case of odontogenic brain abscess.

Materials And Methods: A healthy, 35-year-old male had two dental implants placed in a simultaneously augmented maxillary sinus. One implant failed and the patient developed a maxillary sinusitis that failed to improve following antibiotic treatment at home.

Dental treatment for high-risk patients with refractory heart failure: a retrospective observational comparison study.

Objective: Heart failure affects large population groups. The understanding of the etiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of heart failure has changed considerably within the last few years. The changes have significant implications for the medical management of the disease, as well as on the ability to provide proper dental treatment for these patients.

Oral effects of nonmyeloablative stem cell transplantation: a prospective observational study.

Objective: Nonmyeloablative stem cell transplantation (NST) is a relatively new type of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) that has gained wider use in the last decade. Oral effects of NST have not been described. The goal of the study was to evaluate the oral mucosal effects, including oral acute graft versus host disease (aGVHD), in patients undergoing NST in comparison to patients undergoing myeloablative HSCT.

Oral candidiasis prevention in transplantation patients: a comparative study.

Aim: Oral candidiasis occurs commonly in haematopoietic -stem cell transplantation (HSCT) patients carrying a risk of systemic candidemia and mortality. The aim of this pilot study was to design an effective protocol that prevents oral candidiasis and improves tolerability.

Methods: A prospective, randomized, longitudinal study with two treatment groups, (A) chlorhexidine (CHX) and (B) CHX combined with medium-dose amphotericin B (AMB), was performed.

Time limitations and the challenge of providing infection-preventing dental care to hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation patients.

Goal: Oral-dental infection foci should be eradicated before the ablative chemo-radiotherapy regimen of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) commences. The rationale of oral-dental treatment is to prevent the future development and spread of infections in patients with compromised immune systems. This study aims to shed light on the challenges facing hospital dentists in the implementation of optimal oral-dental treatment prior to HSCT.

Budesonide: a novel treatment for oral chronic graft versus host disease.

Objective: This clinical trial aims to evaluate the efficacy of budesonide, a newly registered steroid with high potency and low bioavailability, for the treatment of chronic oral graft versus host disease (GVHD).

Study Design: Twelve patients with chronic resistant oral GVHD were treated with 3 mg budesonide/5 ml saline 2 to 3 times a day for up to 3 months. Oral manifestations were monitored, and mucosal response scored.