[Experience in conducting course exams on assignments in test form]. / Opyt provedeniia kursovykh ékzamenov po zadaniiam v testovoi forme.

Analysis of the results of examinations in oral surgery making use of tests in 319 fourth-year students showed that such a method of assessing students' knowledge is highly objective.

[The morphological pathology of the "double lip" (a clinical case)]. / K morfologicheskoi patologii "dvoinoi guby" (klinicheskoe nabliudenie).

Morphological changes of tissues in patients with macrocheilia or so-called "double lip" are described. These changes refer this abnormality to teratomas. Surgical treatment of the condition is discuss.

[Experience in conducting course exams in test form]. / Opyt provedeniia kursovykh ékzamenov v testovoi forme.

Examinations including tasks presented as tests were carried out in 319 fourth-year students of dental surgery. This method for assessing the knowledge and skills of students proved to be highly objective.

[The effect of functional tests and of a low-energy helium-neon laser on the local blood circulation in the area of the parotid glands]. / Vliianie funktsional'nykh prob i nizkoénergeticheskogo gelii-neonovogo lazera na mestnoe krovoobrashchenie v oblasti okoloushnykh zhelez.

Effects of ascorbic acid, pilocarpin, nikoshpan, and low-energy He-Ne laser on blood stream volumic rate were studied. Use of laser exposure as a functional test in examination of the salivary glands is substantiated. The studies were carried out in a group of 97 patients with chronic nonspecific sialadenitis.

[Megastenon: its clinical manifestations and treatment with intra- and extraductal laser therapy]. / Megastenon: klinicheskie proiavleniia i lechenie s primeneniem vnutri- i vneprotokovoi lazernoi terapii.

The authors present the data on examinations and follow-up as well as result of combined treatment of 13 patients with abnormally enlarged greater salivary ducts. Clinical manifestations of this rare disease are considered. He-Ne laser therapy in low-energy mode resulted in improvement in 12 patients with complete morphological recovery of the salivary glands in 3 of them.

[Low-energy laser radiation in the combined treatment of salivary gland inflammation]. / Nizkoénergeticheskoe lazernoe izluchenie v kompleksnom lechenii vospaleniia sliunnykh zhelez.

Basing on analysis of clinical cases, the authors make suggestions on clinical and laboratory examinations and comprehensive pathogenetic therapy of patients with acute and chronic nonspecific inflammation of the salivary glands making use of low-energy He-Ne laser. Good results were attained in 95% of patients. The most marked effect of comprehensive treatment was observed when 5 min laser exposure at irradiation power of 0.8 to 1.3 mWt/cm2 was used.

[The regional blood circulation in the parotid gland area in Sjögren's disease (syndrome)]. / Regionarnoe krovoobrashchenie v oblasti okoloushnykh zhelez pri bolezni (sindrome) Shegrena.

Rheographic investigations of the parotid gland area in 103 patients with Sjogren's disease (syndrome) that developed in the presence of chronic nonspecific sialadenitis during its various stages and inflammation phases have demonstrated that the blood stream volumic rate directly depended on the inflammation phase and intensity of this phase. During remission the circulation in the salivary glands was close to normal.

[The clinical and cytological characteristics of the oral mucosa in Sjögren's disease and chronic parotitis]. / Klinicheskaia i tsitologicheskaia kharakteristika slizistoi obolochki polosti rta pri bolezni Shegrena i khronicheskom parotite.

Clinical stomatologic and cytologic studies were carried out in 31 patients with Sjogren's disease, 12 ones with chronic parotitis, and 5 normal subjects. Patients with Sjogren's disease, in contrast to those with chronic parotitis, develop clinically manifest signs of dry exfoliative cheilitis, xerostomia, atrophic changes in the buccal mucosa; this condition is associated with a very high caries intensity and no clinical manifestations of periodontitis or tartar. Elevated leukocyte levels in oral washings and oral fluid of patients with Sjogren's disease and chronic parotitis point to inflammations in the salivary glands, buccal mucosa, and periodontal tissues. Assessment of the leukocyte levels may be used for monitoring the disease course and treatment efficacy. A 3-5-fold enlargement of the deep-layer epitheliocytes, seen on the cytogram of oral washings, is characteristic of patients with Sjogren's disease, in contrast to those with chronic parotitis or normal subjects. A differentiated estimation of the epitheliocyte types in the cytogram of oral washings may be used in the diagnosis of Sjogren's disease along with the criteria suggested before.

[The clinical and diagnostic characteristics of Sjögren's syndrome (disease) and of nonspecific chronic sialoadenitis]. / Nekotorye osobennosti kliniki i diagnostiki sindroma (bolezni) Shegrena i nespetsificheskkogo khronicheskogo sialoadenita.

Analysis of clinical and laboratory parameters of nonspecific chronic sialadenitis, among which essential symptoms of Sjögren's syndrome (disease) have been distinguished, has lead the author to a conclusion that Sjögren's syndrome and disease develop as a symptom complex in the presence of all chronic sialadenitis forms, i.e., parenchymatous, interstitial, and sialodochitis.

[Laser therapy of mandibular fractures]. / Lazernaia terapiia pri perelome nizhnei cheliusti.

Results of a comparative analysis of treatment of 46 patients with mandible fractures show the laser radiation (1 mv/cm2) to enhance the activity of serum alkaline phosphatase, to accelerate fixation of the mandible fracture, to shorten the period of disability of the patients, to prevent inflammatory complications.

[Remote results of the complex treatment of chronic sialadenitis using the helium-neon laser]. / Otdalennye rezul'taty kompleksnogo lecheniia khronicheskogo sialoadenita s primeneniem gelii-neonovogo lazera.

Based on the estimation of results of the complex treatment of 88 patients with chronic nonspecific sialodenitis the authors have established high therapeutic efficiency of the radiation of a low energy laser in threshold doses resulting in rapid liquidation of inflammatory symptoms and pain, high salivation, longer remission and a recovery of the gland structure.

[Changes in the leukocyte capacity for rosette formation as affected by actinolysate in actinomycosis patients and healthy donors]. / Izmenenie sposobnsoti leikotsitov k rozetkoobrazovaniiu pod vliianiemaktinolizata u bol'nykh aktinomikozom i zdorovykh donorov.

The action of actinolysate on the capacity of lymphocytes and neutrophils for rosette-formation has been studied in patients with actinomycosis of the maxillofacial area and with chronic nonspecific inflammatory processes, as well as in healthy donors. Actinolysate has been found to have different influence on cell activity. In actinomycosis patients with the low capacity of cells for spontaneous E-rosette-formation with sheep red blood cells (SRBC) actinolysate suppresses their activity still greater, while in cases of the high capacity of cells for spontaneous epsilon-rosette-formation with SRBC this capacity is increased. In chronic nonspecific inflammatory processes in the maxillofacial area and in healthy donors the reverse tendency is observed.