[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.

[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.