The Role of Dental Practitioners in the Management of Oncology Patients: The Head and Neck Radiation Oncology Patient and the Medical Oncology Patient

Author:

Owosho Adepitan A.12,DeColibus Katherine3,Hedgepeth Beverly3,Wood Burton C.2,Sansoni Ritter E.2,Gleysteen John P.24ORCID,Schwartz David L.5

Affiliation:

1. Department of Diagnostic Sciences, College of Dentistry, The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA

2. Department of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA

3. Division of Oral Diagnosis, Department of Diagnostic Sciences, College of Dentistry, The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA

4. Division of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA

5. Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA

Abstract

This narrative review addresses the role of a dentist in the management of oncology patients, highlighting the oral complications that arise in head and neck radiation oncology patients and medical oncology patients. The prevention and management of these complications are discussed.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

General Dentistry

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