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Good oral hygiene helps to maintain teeth and prevent caries, preventing infections and lesions around the teeth or in the oral mucosa, especially in intensive patients and elderly patients. Poor tooth status with deep holes, dental prosthesis and other affections of mouth and oral mucous membranes, present a risk, especially in patients with diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, prosthetics or other foreign matters, in cancer patients, patients receiving cancer medicine or steroids, or by hypoxia.

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  1. Department of Hospital Infections, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

    Bjørg Marit Andersen

  2. Faculty of Health and Social Science, University of South-Eastern Norway, Oslo, Norway

    Bjørg Marit Andersen

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Andersen, B.M. (2019). Oral Hygiene. In: Prevention and Control of Infections in Hospitals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99921-0_23

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