Key result
Pediatric dental visits aid early childhood hypertension screening and oral side effect management.
Why the study?
There is a need for cooperation between general practitioners, cardiologists, and dentists to enable early diagnosis, effective treatment, and prevention of complications related to hypertension and its treatment in children and youth.
Multidisciplinary care involving dentists, cardiologists, and general practitioners is important for managing pediatric hypertension and mitigating oral complications of antihypertensive therapies.
May warrant dental evaluation in hypertensive youth; leaves open prospective validation of oral manifestations and drug effects.
The authors discuss the factors coexistent with hypertension both in children and youth, as well as the treatment methods and possible symptoms that might appear in the oral cavity. In the work, the authors emphasize that there is a need for cooperation between the general practitioner, a cardiologist and a dentist, so as to provide an early diagnosis and effective treatment, as well as to prevent complications with regard to hypertension itself and the drugs used in treatment. The discussion is based on a review of the most recent works in the field.
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Rosiak et al. (2016) conducted a review in Pediatric hypertension. Hypertension screening and management in pediatric dentistry was evaluated.
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