[Microbiology of the buccal mucosa in elderly patients with general somatic diseases]. / Mikroflora slizistoi obolochki polosti rta u pozhilykh lits pri obshesomaticheskoi patologii.

Sixty-two patients with cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and endocrine diseases aged over 60 years and 27 healthy young people aged 16-18 years (controls) were examined in order to evaluate the qualitative composition and dissemination of oral microflora in elderly people with general somatic diseases. Microbiological study revealed changes in the qualitative composition and dissemination of the oral mucosa microflora, which depended on patient's age, disease, and treatment administered for somatic disease.