HIV And Oral Health

Question 1

What are the ways HIV can spread?

Answer 1

Sexual transmission
Injection drug misuse
Blood products
Vertical transmission
Organ transplant

Question 2

How can you restore the normal immune system?

Answer 2

Antivirals

Question 3

What cell do you use to measure HIV level?

Answer 3

CD4 helper cells

Question 4

What does the HIV virus bind to and target?

Answer 4

CD4

Question 5

What is the time between acute infection to death?

Answer 5

10 years

Question 6

What is shown?

Answer 6

Candititis

Question 7

What is oesophagus candiditis associated with?

Answer 7

Very weak immune system

Question 8

Answer 8

Leukoplakia

Question 9

What is leukoplakia associated with?

Answer 9

EBV virus

Question 10

When do multiple oral ulcers arise?

Answer 10

Acute HIV

Or in late stage disease

Question 11

What can multiple warts indicate?

Answer 11

HIV

And not responding to treatment

Question 12

What is this, bleeds a lot?

Answer 12

Kaposi’s sarcoma

Question 13

Where are the kaposi’s sarcoma predominant?

Answer 13

Skin, palate, bronchi and gut

Question 14

Disease?

Answer 14

Syphilis

Question 15

Disease?

Answer 15

Molluscum contagiosum

Caused by pox virus

Question 16

Disease?

Answer 16

Seborrheic dermatitis - mild moderate immunodeficiency

Question 17

What is this and what causes it?

Answer 17

Effect of HIV drugs

Lipodystrophy

Question 18

If the HIV virus is undetectable, is it untrasmissable?

Answer 18

Yes, undetectable = untransmissable