Attrition in Everyday Dental Clinical Practice.

Introduction: Attrition, its prevention and therapy is a complex problem, with a multifactorial etiology. The aim of this paper is to examine the treatment of attrition in everyday dental clinical practice with the help of soft inserts.

Material And Method: In this study, 30 patients were included, divided into two groups of 15 patients, the study and the control group.

Distribution of Ribotypes in Macedonian Patients and their Antimicrobial Susceptibility.

Background: is a major nosocomial pathogen. In Europe, this bacterium is mostly characterised by PCR ribotyping. Most of the infections (CDI) are treated with vancomycin or metronidazole, although prolonged antibiotic use is considered as one of the main risk factors for CDI.

Chlamydia pneumoniae and helicobacter pylori serology - importance in patients with coronary heart disease.

Background: Chronic infections in CHD are due to one or both of the organisms Chlamydia pneumoniae and Helicobacter pylori.

Aim: To examine the association between serum markers of Chlamydia pneumoniae and Helicobacter pylori infection and markers of myocardial damage. in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), with chronic coronary artery disease (CAD) and in-control group.

Investigation of antimicrobial activity of essential oils of several Macedonian Thymus L. species (Lamiaceae).

Antimicrobial activity of twenty specimens of essential oils of eleven Thymus species, naturally occurring in the Macedonian flora, was investigated by agar diffusion and broth dilution methods. Inhibition of growth and microbicidal action was examined on three Gram positive bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus pneumoniae). In spite of wide variability in essential oil composition, ranging from traces of thymol to the amount of about 50% thymol in oils, all examined samples of Thymus essential oil possessed strong antibacterial activity.