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Association Between Dental Infections and Renal and Liver Diseases

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The number of patients with kidney and liver diseases is increasing due to global aging of populations, increased obesity leading to metabolic syndrome and diabetes, and behavioral factors such as alcohol consumption, and contagious diseases such as hepatitis virus infections. Oral and dental infections may have detrimental effects on the course and treatment of these diseases and should thus be diagnosed and properly treated. The end stage of both kidney and liver diseases calls for organ transplantation and hence lifelong immunosuppression. This renders the patient liable for all kinds of infections. In these patients, insidious dental infections can turn out to be life threatening.

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Meurman, J.H. (2016). Association Between Dental Infections and Renal and Liver Diseases. In: Lynge Pedersen, A. (eds) Oral Infections and General Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25091-5_6

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