Heavy metal poisoning in glass worker characterised by severe.

The paper presents the clinical description of the masticatory organ and biochemical assessment of dental tissue in a patient employed in a glassworks for 20 years. During 12 years the patient has suffered baldness ("Alopecia areata") and atypical extensive and non-healing cutaneous lesions. Dental examination revealed changes typical of chronic poisoning by cadmium and bismuth compounds.

[Assessment of motivating factors for conservative treatment of teeth by stomatological students]. / Ocena czynników motywacyjnych sklaniajacych pacjentów do leczenia zachowawczego zebów u studentów stomatologii.

On the basis of responses to an inquiry provided by patients the motivating factors were assessed which induced the patients to undergo dental treatment provided by students of the stomatological faculty. The main motivating factors were: careful performing of procedures, good results of treatment, short waiting time for visit.

[Analysis of inquiry responses related to visits of stomatological patients depending on age, sex and educational level]. / Ocena wypowiedzi ankietowych dotczacych czestosci wizyt stomatologicznych pacjentow w zaleznosci od wieku, plci i wyksztalcenia.

The purpose of the study was demonstration of possible relationships between the frequency of visits to stomatological office and the age, the sex and the educational level of the patients. The analysis covered 776 responses to an inquiry obtained from the patients visiting the Department of Conservative Stomatology. Comparative statistical analysis showed that these parameters had no effect on the frequency of visits to stomatological surgery. With a high likelihood one can state that this frequency depends on adequately conducted health education, wide network of specialist services, and the health care of the population.

[Clinical training of students of stomatology and its estimation in the light of the patients' opinions]. / Zajecia kliniczne studentów stomatologii i ich ocena w swietle wypowiedzi pacjentów.

Estimation of the students' work from the IVth and Vth year of stomatology has been performed basing on the inquiry opinions of the patients. The opinions concerned in the first place the period of time they should wait for treatment and their frame of mind before the stomatological operation. Most of the patients applied regularly to the students to treat their teeth. High percentage of the people waiting for the visit were good-tempered or a little upset persons. The predominant majority of the patients were very satisfied with the help given to them by the students of stomatology.