[An assessment of the state of the internal organs of periodontitis patients].

Analysis of the visceral status of patients with generalized periodontitis has shown that 97% of these patients suffer from visceral diseases, often multiple. The structure of visceral diseases, laboratory and immune shifts in these patients necessitate a complex approach to the treatment of periodontitis that should be regarded as a local manifestation of visceral pathology.

[The prevention and treatment of periodontal diseases in bronchial asthma patients undergoing a course of treatment in a hypoxic barochamber].

The authors analyze the effects of hypoxia on clinical status and function of periodontal tissues in 71 asthmatics treated in a hypoxic chamber. Functional diagnosis methods were used in the study. The findings formed the basis for recommendations on the prevention and therapy of the shifts developing in the periodontium.