STOMATITIS PREVENTION - ITALIAN GUIDELINES FOR ORAL HEALTH PROMOTION AND ORAL DISEASES PREVENTION IN CHILDREN - PART THREE

Key words: Stomatitis, Prevention, Italian Guidelines

Oral mucosal manifestations may be divided into white lesions, ulcers, neoproliferations and blue-red lesions. The aetiology may range from infections (fungi, viruses, TB, bacterial superinfection) to oral trauma, immunopathology, oncopathology and epithelial damage caused by drugs or irradiation. Risk factors are specific systemic disease e.g. celiac or HSV infection, steroids aerosol treatments, cancer therapies and bad behavioural habits. Each of these conditions requires an appropriate approach to prevent, reduce or treat these oral manifestations.