No 4 (2008)

The researches by definition of a level of hygiene of an oral cavity with an estimation of hygienic knowledge of the schoolboys in Primorsky Territory, and also sponsoring children of quota are carried out. The obtained results will allow to use differential approach to carrying out of hygienic training and education of the population of Primorsky Territory.

This study of microcirculation in inflammatory periodontal diseases showed that periodontal tissue microcirculation worsened to different degrees depending on the severity of the disease. The inclusion ofmexidol in complex therapy of chronic generalized periodontitis in hypertonic patients led to efficient elimination of tissue and circulatory hypoxia and improvement in local and system capillary blood flow.

The results of a comparative immunohistochemical study of dental pulp carried out using monoclonal antibodies to CD3, CD20, and ND68 are described. Pulp from the patients with caries, acute and chronic pulpitis in combination with periodontitis on different stages was received, the qualitative and quantitative characterization of dental pulp immune cells - O- and B-lymphocytes and macrophages was performed.

An analysis of the diagnostics of tumors in the area of the processus alveolaris of 45 patients was performed. The analysis found significant devergencies between the preliminary diagnosis and the results of pathomorphological verification of tumors and tumor-like formations. The article discusses objective causes of such divergences.

An analysis of the diagnostics of tumors in the area of the processus alveolaris of 45 patients was performed. The analysis found significant devergencies between the preliminary diagnosis and the results of pathomorphological verification of tumors and tumor-like formations. The article discusses objective causes of such divergences.

We analyzed 618 clinical case histories in patients with odontogenous maxillary sinusitis treated surgically at the department of Maxillary Facial Surgery of Smolensk State Medical Academy, Regional Clinical Department of the Regional Hospital. In 91 patients operated on for the tooth extirpation (removal), foreign bodies have been detected in the maxillary sinus. Every fifth hospitalized patient has been presented with a different type of complication. Correct diagnoses have been identified in only 17.6% of all admitted cases. Specialized treatment has been provided to only 14.3% cases and the cost involved came to 904982 rbl. The presence of foreign body in the maxillary sinus appeared as a bright argument to establish the fact of "medical mistake" involving the hazardous complication and also social economic and juridical sequellae.