Compared to all the white patches that can appear in the mouth, leukoplakia is the one that demands the most immediate ...

Your saliva carries so much information about your body, but rarely do most of us pay attention to it. Made up of 98-99% of ...

Here are five medical conditions your dentist might detect before your physician does — ...

Treatment with HIV medicines is known as antiretroviral therapy. It helps to boost immunity, but there are side effects of ...

Health care providers in Oregon said they are deeply concerned that congenital syphilis rates continue to rise at an alarming ...

HIV is mainly spread through certain body fluids, not saliva. Saliva contains protective enzymes like SLPI, making oral transmission extremely rare, even through kissing.

Another study published in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests a correlation between oral sex and throat cancer, ...

Oral sex does carry risks, but primarily if you have cuts or lesions in your mouth or the guy ejaculates in the persons mouth and the semen is swallowed. It is still about knowing your partner to the ...

This includes a time when you have sores around your mouth, genitals, or anus (for example, a herpes outbreak), gum damage, a throat infection, or after dental work. If your partner is HIV ...

AIM: To report the frequency of oral lesions in HIV-positive patients on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART), comparing with a non-HIV infected control group, and to correlate the presence of ...

The virus might also transmit during oral sex if the vaginal fluid of someone with HIV enters a partner’s bloodstream through cuts or sores in their mouth. HIV can also pass through oral sores ...

Mouth sores are common in people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). They usually happen because the virus weakens your immune system, so your body has a hard time fighting infections that ...