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Saliva Protection and Transmissible Diseases
Authors: Scully Crispian, Limeres Posse Jacobo, Diz Dios Pedro
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Saliva Protection and Transmissible Diseases provides a review of saliva protection, raising debate on micro-organisms potentially transmissible in saliva, and also considering the evidence on diseases that may be transmitted by kissing. Saliva is a complex body fluid essential to health, especially mastication, swallowing and speech, and hyposalivation can lead to dysfunction and even infection. More serious pathogens, such as herpes viruses and papillomaviruses can be conveyed by kissing, as can potentially lethal micro-organisms present in some saliva, such as meningococci, fungal organisms and Ebola viruses.
1. Pathophysiology of saliva and the paradoxal protective role of saliva2. Oral bacteria transmissible by saliva and kissing3. Systemic bacteria transmissible by kissing4. Viral diseases transmissible by kissing5. Fungi, protozoa and other infective agents transmissible by kissing
microbiologists, immunologists, virologists, researchers in dentistry, professionals in biomedical research
Jacobo Limeres graduated in Dentistry at the Santiago de Compostela University (USC) and got the PhD degree afterwards. He is the Director of the Stomatology Department of the School of Medicine and Dentistry (USC). Also he is the Coordinator of the Exchange Program for Dental Studies in the USC and the Coordinator of the Program for Dental Care of severely handicapped patients, developed in the Special Needs Unit of the USC in agreement with the Galician Healthcare Service. He is the Co-director of the Postgraduate course, Master in Dentistry for Medically compromised patients at the USC and currently is the President of the Spanish Society of Dentistry for Handicapped and Special Needs Patients. He is also member of the council of the International Association for Disability and Oral Health (iADH). He has written about 70 peer-reviewed papers and co-authored several books.
Pedro Diz Dios is qualified in Medicine and is a Specialist in Stomatology at Santiago
- Stipulates the defensive roles of saliva, an important topic not previously reviewed in-depth in literature
- Provides awareness that saliva also transmits infectious agents that can produce serious or even lethal diseases
- Gives understanding that kissing may be an at-risk practice