Drug-induced gingival enlargement.

Objectives: Side effect of medicamentous treatment in hypertension therapy and angina pectoris with calcium channel blockers related to fibrotic gingival enlargement were examined.

Methods: In our study we deal with clinico-histopathological and microbiological knowledge from this field underpinned by two case reports treated with antihypertensive therapy using calcium channel blockers. In the first case report we were largely concerned with microbiological findings from the area of periodontal pseudopockets diagnosed through a DNA analysis and appropriate antibiotic therapy.

[Partial results of an investigation of the state of dentition of the Czechoslovak population with regard to targets of WHO for the year 2000].

In 1987 a nation-wide survey of the state of dentition of Czechoslovak population in age groups of 2-65 years and above was made. The paper presents the results in the age category of 5-6 years, 12 years, 18 years, 35-44 and 65 year and more, with regard to criteria defined for WHO targets for the year 2000. Data for the CSSR, SSR and CSSR are presented separately.

Changes in the capillary flow of gingiva due to the influence of some impulses.

75 healthy men and women, aged from 20 to 45 years, were divided into five groups of 15 persons each. Na131I resorption halftime values from the examined area of the gingiva, pulse frequency as well as systolic and diastolic blood pressure were examined. Tests were carried out twice.

Influence of the menstrual cycle on the gingival microcirculation.

In young women in the reproductive age, a statistically significant decrease in the plasma levels of estradiol-17 beta during menstruation (P less than 0.001) was accompanied by marked expression of existing symptoms of chronic catarrhal gingivitis and by their appearance in so far intact areas of the marginal gingivae. At the same time, a statistically significant rise of the gingival index (less than 0.