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Adverse effects of topical and sistemic medications in the oral mucosa

Many of the commonly used with or without medical prescription drugs potentially cause adverse reactions in the oral mucosa. Thus, it is necessary that health care providers become conscious about the possible undesired effects caused by each medication, to enable an adequate clinical conduct in order to take the necessary steps to minimize them. In this paper the authors present a review of the drugs that most commonly cause these alterations.

mouth mucosa; adverse effects; administration; topical; drug toxicity


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