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Interdisciplinary dental care as a component of comprehensive treatment for patients with cystic fibrosis


  1. Department of Dental Traumatology, Chair of Pediatric Dentistry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Medical Studies

Online publish date: 2026/06/05
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This

paper aims to identify the dental prevention and treatment needs

of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and suggest implementation

of dedicated dental health standards for such patients. Oral

bacterial microbiota are a part of the upper

respiratory tract microbiota, which is of crucial importance,

especially for patients at risk of respiratory auto-infection.

Parents and, later, patients themselves are not always aware

of the harmful impact of the ongoing pathologies

in the oral cavity on the whole body. Hence, educating on

how to counteract auto-infection is necessary. CF patients are

a group that require targeted dental care, and a dentist

should be a member of a multi-specialist patient-care

team. To improve the oral health of CF patients, it is

advisable to implement overall solutions involving targeted

preventive and therapeutic measures. Presented oral health standards

of CF patients may affect their general health and quality

of life.




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