Oral manifestations of physical abuse. Case report

Abstract

The dentist as a health care professional can initially detect signs and symptoms of physical abuse by the Bucco-facial injuries that present a child. Sometimes these signals may not be perceived because of the lack of awareness of child abuse and child neglect. Within the maltreatment described oral manifestations including thrush is not mentioned the case clinical reason for study refers to a nursing child who initially presented a widespread oral thrush, which by its complication drifted in hospitalization, despite intrahospitalario treatment progressed to an abscess and subsequently to a facial cellulitis of unknown origin. They suspected that the thrush was a sign early of an oral manifestation of the Virus of human immunodeficiency (HIV), whose diagnosis was ruled out by molecular biology tests PCR to the polymerase (PCR) for HIV.