AIDS is the abbreviation for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The disease is caused by virus known as human immunodeficiency virus. Oral manifestations are the earliest and most important indicators of HIV infection. Oral lesions can not only indicate infection with HIV, they are also among the early clinical features of the infection and can predict progression of HIV disease to AIDS. Treatment of HIV patient involves trying to slow or stop the virus from spreading in the body's cells and treating or preventing disease that develop when a person's immune system has been damaged by the...

Neuralgia is defined as"neuropathic pain felt along the peripheral distribution of a nerve trunk."Neuropathic pain refers to pain initiated or caused by a primary lesion or dysfunction in the nervous system.It is due to an abnormality in components of the nervous system itself rather than to noxious stimulation of otherwise normal neural structures as with superficial and deep somatic pain disorders. Neuropathic pain conditions are frequently associated with qualities with which the patient is not familiar.One of the responsibilities of the dentist is the diagnosis and treatment of pain...