CORRELATION BETWEEN THE ORAL HYGIENIC CONDITION AND PSYCHO-SOCIAL FACTORS IN THE ELDERLY POPULATION OF IMERETI.

The purpose of the study is to determine the correlation between the oral hygienic condition and the psycho-social factors in the elderly population of Imereti. The research was based on the findings of 374 persons who were older than 50 years of age from the contingent of Kutaisi Regional Dental Center and From the contingent of the boarding house of the Kutaisi elderly and disabled people. The oral hygienic level was determined by the method of GreeneVermilion, and we used the E.

[CORRELATION MATRIX OF CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRONIC RECURRENT APHTHOUS STOMATITIS].

The purpose of the present work is to study the correlation between the risk factors of chronic recurrent aphthous stomatitis. The research was conducted on 62 patients between ages of 40 and 70 years at Tbilisi Hospital for Veterans of War. The analysis was carried out by Spearman's Rank Correlation method using the statistical package SPSS 11.

[The influence of extracorporeal laser radiation on structural indices of erythrocytes].

Object of the research was to study the diffractometric indices of erythrocytes, while 1 ml of the blood of the experimental animals was irradiated extracorporally by helium-neon laser. For this purpose 1 ml blood was taken from normal weight, (1200 gr) grown up shinshila rabbits, that we divided into 7 groups and irradiated with 10 vat helium-neon laser during 0.5-1 minutes.

[Treatment of recurrent aphthous stomatitis with application of a preparation of a hesperidin 5.0%].

Open randomized 2-year trial has been performed to analyze effectiveness of Unguentum of a hesperidin developed by us for the treatment of recurrent aphthous stomatitis. 80 patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis in the age from 15 till 60 years from the contingent of the polyclinic of the veterans of Tbilisi were studied. After inclusion of the preparation into the treatment the pain and duration of inflammatory process have been decreased; the complications were not observed.

[Association of the ABO blood group system and hip joint dysplasia].

On the basis of distribution of ABO blood groups among 963 sick children with dysplastic pathology of hip joint and 1402 Georgians from among the total population of the city of Tbilisi there have been obtained significant associations of 0 group with this pathology. The hypothesis about genetic community of these symptoms has been rejected. Phenotypic correlations have demonstrated that 0 group of blood promotes an expression of hereditary predisposition to the hip joint dysplastic pathology.