Can high-risk HPV infect your mouth?

HPV infection is highly host-specific and suitable for growth in warm and humid environments. It mainly infects the floating layer and squamous epithelium of skin and mucosa at specific parts of the human body. Sex hormones are the main route of transmission, and the infectivity is strongest at about three months. Other routes, such as contact transmission or direct mother-to-child transmission, cannot be completely ruled out. HPV has many genotypes, and according to biological characteristics and carcinogenic potential, HPV is divided into high-risk and low-risk types. High-risk and precancerous lesions and carcinoma-related, low-risk and mild squamous epithelial lesions and genitourinary warts, recurrent respiratory polyps.