Administration, Topical ; Humans ; Mouth Diseases ; drug therapy ; Mouth Mucosa

Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Dental Care for Aged ; Humans ; Mouth Diseases ; diagnosis ; drug therapy ; Mouth Mucosa ; pathology

Humans ; Mouth Diseases ; drug therapy ; Mouth Mucosa ; pathology ; Thalidomide ; therapeutic use

This article introduces some commonly used methods of ozone concentration detection, including chemical method, UV absorption method, and electrochemical method etc., introduces the latest four ozone concentration sensors, and summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of each method. In addition, the article emphatically introduces the ozone's applications and development in the medical aspects. Prospects for the use of ozone concentration detection, ozone treatment and ozone therapy instrument are also demonstrated in it. The literature collected and reviewed on ozone concentration detection and ozone therapy includes 37 papers in English, and 50 papers in Chinese, but only 30 articles among them are included in this review (19 in Chinese and 11 in English), according to the principle of eliminating the old information and repetitive contents. The present paper selects only those on ozone, ozone concentration, ozone therapy and ozone therapy instrument.
Hepatitis ; drug therapy ; Humans ; Mouth Diseases ; drug therapy ; Ozone ; analysis ; therapeutic use

Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; Humans ; Lichen Planus ; drug therapy ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Mouth Diseases ; drug therapy ; prevention & control ; Mouth Neoplasms ; drug therapy ; Orthodontics ; Periodontal Diseases ; drug therapy ; Stomatitis, Aphthous ; drug therapy

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has developed rapidly in basic and clinical research, and its therapeutic prospects have received increasing attention. PDT has the advantages of minimally invasive, low toxicity, high selectivity, good reproducibility, protection of appearance and vital organ function, and has become a treatment. With the development of medicine, the field of application of PDT becomes more wildly, and brings a new direction for the treatment of oral diseases. This article reviews the basic principles, treatment elements and research results of PDT in the treatment of oral diseases.
Humans ; Mouth Diseases/drug therapy* ; Photochemotherapy ; Photosensitizing Agents/therapeutic use* ; Reproducibility of Results

An 8-year-old girl who had experienced intermittent cough and fever over a 3 year period, was admitted after experiencing a recurrence for one month. One year ago the patient experienced a recurrent oral mucosal ulcer. Physical examination showed vitiligo in the skin of the upper right back. Routine blood tests and immune function tests performed in other hospitals had shown normal results. Multiple lung CT scans showed pulmonary infection. The patient had recurrent fever and cough and persistent presence of some lesions after anti-infective therapy. The antitubercular therapy was ineffective. Routine blood tests after admission showed agranulocytosis. Gene detection was performed and she was diagnosed with dyskeratosis congenita caused by homozygous mutation in RTEL1. Patients with dyskeratosis congenita with RTEL1 gene mutation tend to develop pulmonary complications. Since RTEL1 gene sequence is highly variable with many mutation sites and patterns and can be inherited via autosomal dominant or recessive inheritance, this disease often has various clinical manifestations, which may lead to missed diagnosis or misdiagnosis. For children with unexplained recurrent pulmonary infection, examinations of the oral cavity, skin, and nails and toes should be taken and routine blood tests should be performed to exclude dyskeratosis congenita. There are no specific therapies for dyskeratosis congenita at present, and when bone marrow failure and pulmonary failure occur, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and lung transplantation are the only therapies. Androgen and its derivatives are effective in some patients. Drugs targeting the telomere may be promising for patients with dyskeratosis congenita.
Child ; Dyskeratosis Congenita ; complications ; therapy ; Female ; Humans ; Mouth Diseases ; etiology ; Mouth Mucosa ; pathology ; Recurrence ; Respiratory Tract Infections ; etiology ; Telomere ; drug effects ; Ulcer ; etiology

To assess the efficacy and safety of Xiyanping injection for hand foot mouth disease. All Clinical studies of Xiyanping injection for hand foot mouth disease were searched from Cochrane library, Medline, EMbase, CBM, CNKI, Wanfang and VIP. Selection of trials for inclusion, data extraction, assessment of methodological quality were completed by two independent screening. The quality of the included documents was evaluated by the Cochrane collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias and allocation concealment. Revman 5. 1 software was used for data analysis. Twenty-four randomized controlled trials were included (involving 2 974 patients), in which, only one study was true RCT and two studies used incorrect methodology. The remaining studies did not provide allocation concealment, blind or loss-up information. The results of Meta-analysis were presented below. Compared with conventional treatment measures, the efficiency of Xinyanping injection group was better (OR = 4.26, 95% Cl [3.19, 5.69]). Both fever clearance time (WMD = - 1.48, 95% Cl [- 1.85, - 1.11]) and skin eruption eliminating time (WMD = - 1.78, 95% Cl [- 2.84, - 0.72]) of Xinyanping injection group were shorter than the control group. Researches with ADR/AE information of Xinyanping injection showed that the symptoms of ADR/AE were slight. The systematic review suggests that Xiyanping injection in the combination with conventional treatment may improve the efficacy of the treatment of hand foot mouth disease. However, as all of the included trials were published in Chinese and of poor quality, we cannot draw a sure conclusion. More rigorous trials with high quality are required.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; administration & dosage ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Mouth Diseases ; drug therapy ; Young Adult

BACKGROUNDStevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are life-threatening diseases with high mortality rates. This study was designed to analyze the pathogenic factors, clinical manifestations, complications, treatment, and prognosis of SJS/TEN and to explore the differences between surviving and deceased patients.

METHODSSJS/TEN patients admitted to Beijing Friendship Hospital from January 2006 to December 2015 were included in the study. Patients' data were retrospectively analyzed. Comparative studies were performed on the survival group and the deceased group, and Fisher's exact probability test was used for statistical analysis.

RESULTSAmong the 88 patients included, 40 (45.5%) were male with a mean age of 45 ± 18 years. Forty-eight (54.5%) had SJS, 34 (38.6%) had SJS/TEN, and 6 (6.8%) had TEN. Fifty-three (60.2%) cases were caused by medications, mainly antibiotics (n = 24) followed by traditional Chinese medicines (n = 7). Forty-two cases (47.7%) developed visceral damage. Eighty-two patients improved or recovered and were discharged from hospital, and six patients died. Comparative studies on the survival group and the deceased group showed that the presence of malignant tumor ( χ2 = 27.969,P < 0.001), connective tissue diseases ( χ2 = 9.187, P= 0.002), previous abnormal liver/kidney functions ( χ2 = 6.006, P= 0.014), heart rate >100 times/min ( χ2 = 6.347, P= 0.012), detached skin area >20% ( χ2 = 5.594, P= 0.018), concurrent mucosal involvement at the mouth, eyes, and external genitals ( χ2 = 4.945, P= 0.026), subsequent accompanying liver/kidney damage ( χ2 = 11.839, P= 0.001, and χ2 = 36.302,P < 0.001, respectively), and SCORTEN score >2 ( χ2 = 37.148,P < 0.001) increased the risk of death.

CONCLUSIONSSJS/TEN is mainly caused by medications, and nearly half of patients develop visceral damage. Multiple factors increase the mortality risk.

Adult ; Anti-Bacterial Agents ; therapeutic use ; Connective Tissue Diseases ; metabolism ; pathology ; Eye ; pathology ; Female ; Genitalia ; pathology ; Humans ; Kidney ; metabolism ; pathology ; Liver ; metabolism ; pathology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Mouth ; pathology ; Retrospective Studies ; Skin ; metabolism ; pathology ; Stevens-Johnson Syndrome ; drug therapy ; metabolism ; pathology

Man is host to three distinct trichomonad species such as Trichomonas vaginalis, T. hominis, and T. tenax. Although reports of trichomonads found outside their natural habitat are rare, sporadic case reports have appeared describing trichomonads in the respiratory tract. The route of infection is unknown, but possible mechanisms include invasion from mouth, oral sex, bronchopleural or pleuroenteral fistula. Pulmonary trichomoniasis is a kind of oppotunistic infection and is usually caused by aspirated T. tenax in male adult patientis with chronic purulent or necrotic pulmonary disease. A 63-year-old male patient with alcoholic liver cirrhosis and chronic bronchiectasis was admitted due to copious sputum, dyspnea, fever and severe weight loss. On the thoracentesis from his right pleural cavity, 1 L of foul-smelling, brownish-yellow exudate was withdrawn and showed a large number of neutrophil, bacteria and numerous flagellated, actively motile organisms with typical appearance of thrichomonads in wet preparation. This patient was expired due to sepsis and insufficiency of multiple organs inspite of chemotherapy with metronidazole, cefuroxime and gentamicin on day 35 of admission. So, we report the first case of pulmonary trichomoniasis diagnosed in wet preparation of pleural fluid in Korea.
Adult ; Bacteria ; Bronchiectasis ; Cefuroxime ; Drug Therapy ; Dyspnea ; Ecosystem ; Exudates and Transudates ; Fever ; Fistula ; Gentamicins ; Humans ; Korea ; Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic ; Lung Diseases ; Male ; Metronidazole ; Middle Aged ; Mouth ; Neutrophils ; Pleural Cavity ; Respiratory System ; Sepsis ; Sexual Behavior ; Sputum ; Trichomonas vaginalis ; Weight Loss