A multicenter retrospective investigation on the efficacy of perioperative oral management in cancer patients.

ABSTRACT: Patients develop a number of oral complications during cancer treatments. Oral bacteria are associated with the onset of dental focal infections and the progression of oral mucositis. Dental focal infections are frequently associated with the systemic onset of bacteremia, sepsis, and pneumonia. The degeneration of oral function with these complications may become an obstacle to cancer treatments. Although comprehensive oral management, including oral care, the removal of dental focal infections, and improvements in oral function with dentures, is conducted for cancer patients in Japan, few studies have assessed its efficacy.The aim of the present study was to investigate the incidence of dental/oral complications in cancer patients with perioperative oral managements (POMs) based on a larg

SUBMITTER: Yamada SI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7478406 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature