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(A1) Identification of Oral Health Care Needs in Children and Adults, Management of Oral Diseases

T.A. Hodgson^1,*, S. Naidoo², M. Chidzonga³, F. Ramos-Gomez⁴, and C. Shiboski⁵

¹ Oral Medicine, Division of Maxillofacial Diagnostic, Medical and Surgical Sciences, UCL Eastman Dental Institute and UCLHT Eastman Dental Hospital, 256 Gray’s Inn Road, London, UK
² Department of Community Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
³ Department of Dentistry, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe
⁴ Department of Growth and Development, University of California San Francisco, and Pediatric Dental Services, San Francisco General Hospital, USA; and
⁵ Oral Medicine Clinical Center, Department of Orofacial Sciences, University of California San Francisco, USA

Correspondence: ^* corresponding author, t.hodgson{at}eastman.ucl.ac.uk

The workshop considered five questions reviewing the identification of international oral health care needs of children and adults, and the management of oral diseases in resource-poor countries: (1) What is the role of the dental profession in the management of the HIV-infected individual? (2) Identifying health care needs-What are the epidemiology and disparities of HIV-associated oral lesions in children from different continents? (3) How effective is HIV treatment in controlling oral diseases? (4) Could we develop basic inexpensive oral and dental care protocols for economically deprived HIV-infected patients? and (5) What is the best method of arranging resources to meet the oral health care needs of people with HIV disease? The consensus of the workshop participants was that there is a need to re-target research efforts to non-established market economy countries and prioritize research in these regions to children with HIV disease. It will be important to assess commonalities and variations in oral health needs across geographical and cultural boundaries, and research efforts should be centralized in resource-poor countries to support multi-center longitudinal standardized studies. It is essential that oral health research be integrated into other health care research programs, to make these research priorities and public health initiatives feasible.

KEY WORDS: Oral health • HIV • AIDS • international

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