[Posterior palatal sealing in Hungarian dental practice].

The purpose of the survey was to receive data about the methods, materials and instruments used in the development of the border seal at pharyngeal region. The problem concerned how the theoretical principles are realised in the everyday practice. A questionnaire consisting of 10 questions was given out to 35 dental laboratories in 31 towns of the country.

[New aspects of prosthetic treatment in adolescents].

The authors emphasise the similarities in the prosthodontic treatment of the 14-18 age group and adult patients. This is a new concept compared to the available reports in the scientific literature. According to their opinion permanent prosthodontic treatment should be provided from the age of fourteen.

[Prosthetic implications of dental screening tests of adolescents].

The 700 teen-agers of 14 to 19 years of age observed in the course of national dental screen tests between 1985 and 1989 showed 1198 edentulousness and 154 destroyed teeth. Dental appliances were prepared but for 33 juveniles which, in case of 14 persons, were covering crowns or pin teeth while with 19 thereof it were bridges. Thereby 3.

[General experiences in dental screening of adolescents].

The dental and mouth hygiene of youth of 14 to 19 years of age have been separately analyzed from the results of the general dental screen test performed between 1985 and 89 by the Clinic of Prosthetic Dentistry of Budapest. The global DMF-T index of the first national sites was 8.99 and the OHI-S index was 1.

[Development and therapeutic possibilities in pathological bone changes in the alveolar ridge].

For preventing pathological leison its healing as well as slowing down of the progress of the already formed course the employment of prosthetic therapy is suggested. Various solutions are presented which, on basis of their clinical experiences, are deemed successful therapeutics. Finally, in case of the above mentioned statuses attention is called to the possibilities of error in the course of individual stages of work in making denture as well as to the possibility to their elimination.