[Problems of dental diseases among young residents of the Archangelsk region]. / Problemy stomatologicheskoi patologii molodezhi Arkhangel'skoi oblasti.

Dental examinations (according to WHO methods) were carried out in 447 youths aged 18-19 years, residents of Northern Russia, in Archangelsk before army service, and 500 students of Northern Medical University. Dental health of young people was characterized by high incidence and prevalence of caries (9.4.31%, CDL = 5.94), periodontal diseases, maxillodental abnormalities (72.18%), high percentage of lost teeth (8.75) in the CDL structure, poor oral hygiene (OHI-S index 3.68), and high level of need in all types of dental care, this demonstrating poor organization of health improving measures for young people before military service. Poor dental health in young people aged 18-19 years is one of the causes making them unfit for army service or fit with limitations (47 subjects for categories C, D in 1996-1998, 100-198 subjects annually for category B).

[The epidemic control readiness of an orthodontic dental service under the conditions of the threatened AIDS epidemic (the problems in organizing student instruction and managing clinical admission)]. / Protivoépidemicheskaia gotovnost' ortopedicheskoi stomatologicheskoi sluzhby v usloviiakh ugrozy épidemii SPID (voprosy organizatsii obucheniia studentov i vedenii klinicheskogo priema).

The authors emphasize the necessity of urgent practical measures that will provide effective prevention of HIV infection of medical staff, students and patients at orthodontic clinics. These measures imply rearrangement of the order of medical consultations at clinics and of lessons in order to enhance the antiepidemic readiness of orthodontic service.

[The need and possibility for disinfecting impressions in orthodontics (a review of the literature)]. / Neobkhodimost' i vozmozhnost' dezinfektsii ottiskov v ortopedicheskoi stomatologii (obzor literatury).

Reviews the data on a high risk of viral and bacterial infection of dentists in connection with the high prevalence of AIDS and viral hepatitis B and on the possibility of infection of dental patients and the staff by microorganisms transfer on the impressions. Presents the present-day methods and means for disinfection of the impression material. Emphasizes inadequate knowledge of the dentists about the virucidal efficacy and the possibility of the impressions changing their properties in disinfection, which fact results in inaccuracy of the ready articles.