[Analysis of conflict situations in orthodontics by Moscow Municipal Committee for Expert Evaluation of Orthodontic Treatment and Denture Making].

The activities of Municipal Committee for Expert Evaluation of Orthodontic Treatment and Fitting with Dentures promote resolution of conflicts: only 5-7% conflict affairs are investigated in the court after investigation in the Committee. A total of 686 patients, mainly with combined maxillofacial diseases, were consulted for 3.5 years of its work.

[The prospects for the use of computers in dentistry].

A universal soft-art complex tentatively named Arm-Stomatolog, covering all sections of dentistry, has been developed. It is based on individual programs in dentistry, making use of high-level algorithmic languages fitted to modern operation systems and permitting block-to-block fitting of individual programs to unite them in a complex.

[Delayed hypersensitivity to house dust-storage mites Thyrophagus putrescentiae in experimental allergic dermatoses].

House dust mites and storage mites proved to be one of the main allergens causing hypersensitivity in atopic dermatitis in allergic patients. The authors reproduced experimental allergic dermatosis on the model of delayed type hypersensitivity in guinea pigs, caused by sensitization to the allergen from the mite's bodies Tyrophagus putrescentiae--species having wide distribution in the country. The results characteristic for T-cell type hypersensitivity have been obtained: delayed positive skin tests after 24 hours, typical histomorphological picture (strong allergic alteration, epidermis desquamation, vasculitis, dermis T-cell infiltration and spongiosis--Waksman's syndrome).