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What hapoens if medication is not taken in hypertensive patients with periodontitis?

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ment of Oral Rehabilitation and Dental Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Petru Rares No. 2–4, 200349 Craiova, Romania 2Department of Odontotherapy, Endodontics and Orthodontics, Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 1 Mai No. 68, Craiova, Romania Received 1 October 2013; Accepted 22 October 2013 Academic Editors: F. Angeli and K. C. Ortega Copyright © 2013 Sanda Mihaela Popescu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative COMMONS Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Hypertension is a common disease encountered in dental setting. Its WIDE spreading, terrible consequences, and life-long treatment require an attentive approach by dentists. Hypertension management in dental office includes disease recognition and correct measurement, knowledge of its treatment and oral adverse effects, and risk assessment for dental treatment. Dentist role in screening undiagnosed and undertreated hypertension is very important since this may lead to improved monitoring and treatment. 1. Introduction Hypertension is defined as values >140 mmHg SBP and/or >90 mmHg DBP, based on the evidence from RCTS that in PATIENTS with these BP values treatment-induced BP reductions are beneficial (Table 1) [1]. The same CLASSIFICATION is used in young, middle-aged, and elderly subjects, whereas different criteria, based on percentiles, are adopted in children and teenagers for whom data from interventional trials are not available [1].



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