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Abstract : The systemic condition of patients with kidney failure has oral manifestations and specific implications for dental treatment. Few segments of the population need dental services as desperately as do patients receiving hemodialysis or kidney transplants. In this ever increasing group of patients, dental disease may have consequences much more serious than the loss of function, esthetics, and comfort. Dental problems may compromise the patient's general health and hinder medical efforts to either maintain or replace vital kidney functions. Specifically, the dentist must consider bleeding tendency, risk of infection and medications before treating the patient. Oral and dental health has served as a valuable indicator in measuring the prognosis of chronic kidney disease, while, its role in diagnosing renal pathosis requires to be explored further. This manuscript reviews pertinent information to help medical and dental professionals systematically treat patients who exhibit oral and systemic manifestations of renal disease, from the onset of renal impairment through hemodialysis.