Advances in Oral Diseases with Orofacial Manifestations
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2024) | Viewed by 205
Special Issue Editors
Interests: oral medicine; oral diseases; dental medicine; oral pathology; dental implantology; oral implantology; rare diseases
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Interests: oral medicine; dental medicine; dental implantology; oral implantology; digital planning; prosthodontics; oral rehabilitation; dental materials; rare diseases
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
About 15 percent of the 6000 to 8000 known rare diseases worldwide show orofacial manifestations. In addition to changes in the shape and/or number of teeth (e.g., X-linked hypophosphatemia; ectodermal dysplasia), these can also include changes in the oral mucosa, for example.
Changes can indicate the onset of a rare disease (e.g., Crohn's disease), support the diagnosis of a rare disease (e.g., systemic scleroderma), or draw attention to the recurrence of a rare disease (e.g., granulomatosis with polyangiitis).
Rare disease patients often experience a marathon of doctor visits and misdiagnoses because these conditions and symptoms are not present in the daily clinic routine.
Because of the small number of people affected, therapies are often based on individual case reports or, at best, case series.
This Special Issue will therefore focus on rare diseases with orofacial manifestations. The focus is particularly on the areas of clinical signs, therapy, and quality of life.
Dr. Marcel Hanisch
Dr. Lauren Bohner
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rare diseases
- oral health
- patient-reported outcome
- oral-health-related quality of life
- oral symptoms
