Open AccessSalivary IgA and dental caries in HIV patients: A pilot study
Author(s) -
Sonu Acharya,
Pradip Mandal
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of the indian society of pedodontics and preventive dentistry/journal of indian society of pedodontics and preventive dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3905
pISSN - 0970-4388
DOI - 10.4103/0970-4388.191412
Subject(s) - saliva , medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , dentistry , immunoglobulin a , antibody , immunology , immunoglobulin g
The interrelationship of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and dental caries, as well as Salivary IgA (S-IgA) level, appear to remain underexplored while a manual and electronic search of the literature was made. Hence, this study was undertaken to assess the relationship of S-IgA and dental caries status in HIV +ve children.