ABSTRACT
Aphthous stomatitis (AS) is one of the most common diseases of the oral mucosa in children. A significant role in the pathogenesis of AS is assigned to the infectious-allergic factor. THE AIM: Of the work was to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of topical application of bacteriophages in the complex treatment of children with aphthous stomatitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The main group included 30 children with AS aged 4 to 15 years. The control group consisted of 20 healthy children without AS and without concomitant somatic pathology at the age of 4 to 15 years. The effectiveness of the therapy was evaluated based on the results of repeated bacteriological examination of the oral microflora, conducted 1 month after phage treatment, as well as the dynamics of clinical manifestations: reduction in size or complete epithelization of defects. RESULTS: The use of bacteriophage in the complex treatment of children with AS was accompanied by positive dynamics of clinical and laboratory parameters in all patients: a significant decrease in microbial contamination and the number of individual pathogenic microflora species against the background of normalization of local microbiocenosis in the oral cavity. CONCLUSION: The obtained clinical and laboratory data allowed improving the scheme of complex treatment of AS in children by the use of bacteriophages.
