Impact of oral/dental disease burden on postoperative infective complications: a prospective cohort study.

Objectives: This prospective cohort study aimed to assess the association between dental disease burden and postoperative infective complications (POICs) in patients undergoing major surgical procedures under general anaesthesia.

Methods: Pre-surgical dental assessment was undertaken on patients planned for major surgery. Demographic and surgical variables including putative risk factors for POICs and POIC status were documented.

Paraneoplastic pemphigus: Diagnostic mimics, confounders and management challenges in a series of five long-term survivors from a single centre.

We present a series of five cases who presented to our institution with treatment-refractory mucosal ulceration, all of whom were subsequently diagnosed with paraneoplastic pemphigus (PNP). This case series highlights the diagnostic and treatment considerations for PNP - in particular, the steroid-dependent, recalcitrant, polymorphic manifestations; the combination of histopathological and clinical findings that may overlap with clinically similar diseases, for example, pemphigus vulgaris and lichen planus; the importance of immunopathological findings for its diagnosis, and the need for surveillance and management of life-threatening bronchiolitis obliterans.

Prevalence of oral HPV in the adult sample population in Sydney.

Background: Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas are increasing in incidence. Risk factors include sexual behaviour, high-risk oral HPV infection and poor oral hygiene. We aimed to provide initial information on the prevalence and assess the feasibility of testing in dental settings.