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.Stipulates the defensive roles of saliva, an important topic not previously reviewed in-depth in literatureProvides awareness that saliva also transmits infectious agents that can produce serious or even lethal diseasesGives understanding that kissing may be an at-risk practice

Saliva Protection and Transmissible Diseases

Science & Math

Scully, Crispian

Diz Dios PhD MD MDS, Pedro

Limeres Posse, Jacobo

Biological Sciences

Academic Press

<p>This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It is comprehensive and concise information source on special care dentistry by the foremost authority on the subject in the UK.</p>

Special Care in Dentistry: Handbook of Oral Healthcare, 1e

Medical Books

Scully MD PhD, Crispian

Kumar BDS FDS RCS (Eng) PhD Cert RDP, Navdeep

Dentistry

Churchill/Livingstone

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