How can the dental surgeon promote oral health in patients submitted to chemotherapy?

• Autor(a) principal: de Souza Lessa, Mariana
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Patussi, Cleverson, Ferrairo Danieletto Zanna, Carolina, Moacir Sassi, Moacir Sassi, Zanna Ferreira , Gustavo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Dental Science
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.ict.unesp.br/index.php/cob/article/view/3013

Lesions that affect the oral cavity resulting from chemotherapy can lead to systemic impairment, increasing thelength of hospital stay, impairing the patient’s quality of life. Through a integrative review, this work aims toshow the conduct and importance of dentists in promoting oral health and preventing an oral infectious focus.The search was performed in the Pubmed, Cochrone, SciElo and Virtual Health Library (VHL) databases, usingthe descriptors in English, oral care and Chemotherapy and Cancer treatment and dentistry, filtering only articlesin English and published between 2006 and 2021. The search located six hundred and twenty articles, but onlyseven met the search criteria. One author used a mouthwash containing propolis where 65% of patients werecured on the seventh day after the onset of oral mucositis (OM) lesions. One author used cryotherapy withchamomile infusion, patients who underwent this approach did not pass grade I, being effective in reducingthe occurrence of OM, and the other two authors proposed a protocol for oral cavity care. All authors obtainedsatisfactory results.KEYWORDSDentistry; Antineoplastics; Oncology.