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Acta Odontológica Venezolana
Print version ISSN 0001-6365
Abstract
SALINAS M, Yuni J and MILLAN I, Ronald E. Eritema multiforme: Conducta odontológica. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2009, vol.47, n.4, pp.174-200. ISSN 0001-6365.
The excessively high incidence on periodontal problems in the population makes it difficult for a reduced number of specialists deal with them. The principal premise is that periodontal care is in essence, the general dentist work and he can not ignore the responsibility to provide adequate attention to every patient. The vesicular-ampulla-erosive lesions in the mouth and skin may be caused by a wide number of pathologies. The ethiology of theses is very variable too, from trauma-chemical contact to an immune cause. Occasionally, it is difficult to make a differential diagnose to know the origin of the injury, its important to know all the clinical, epidemiological and histopathological of each entity. The multiforme erithema is an eruptive inflammatory mucocutaneous disease, acute polimorfe and and self-limited that may appear in the mouth mucose only, various mucoses, skin or both. It may not be an ethiological entity, but a group of symptoms or reaction patternthat represents many possible factors, like stress, medicines or systemic disease. It represents an emergency in dentistry. It is important that the dentist identify them as well as their consequences and complications, if they are not treated in time. The purpose of this report is to describe the different clinic presentation, etiology and pathogenesis, epidemiology diagnose, differentials, treatment, prognosis, complications and post surgery care. Thats why a revision of the national and international literature was made based upon on documentary descriptive research techniques
Keywords : erythema multiforme; erythema multiforme major; erythema multiforme minor; Stevens-Johnson Syndrome; Oral Mucosa.