[Taste perception during clinical symptom complex of gastroesophageal reflux disease].

Taste perception is an important criterion for the state of the oral mucous membrane in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease. The tongue, as an organ of taste, is characterized by serious changes in the functional state after injury with acid-containing substrates due to reflux. The specific features of taste perception and possibility for their correction were studied in 75 patients with this disorder.

[Changes of gustatory perception in elderly patients with type II sugar diabetes. Surgical section].

In 73 elderly patients with type II sugar diabetes there were found changes of gustatory perception of sweet that were most pronounced on primary stage of the disease and that can be considered as manifestation of diabetic neuropathy of oral cavity organs and tissues.

[Functional characteristics of periodontium sensing apparatus and its significance in prosthetic stomatologic clinic].

Using developed by us method and instrument Periosensomer the sensor function of the periodontium on the initial stages of masticatory act (test of holding and splitting of food object) in persons with different functional periodontium status was explored. Evaluation of the sensor function of the periodontium and dynamics of the sensor reaction during holding and splitting of food object can be used as the method of functional diagnostics in the prosthetic stomatological clinic.

[Intersensory correlations in diabetic neuropathy during adaptation to intervalic normobaric hypoxia].

The state of vibration sensitivity and of gustatory perception as well as the influence of interval hypoxic training on these indices were estimated in 21 patients with insulin-independent diabetes mellitus (IIDM) without neuropathic manifestations, in 21 analogous patients with neuropathic manifestations and in 16 individuals with neuropathies of nondiabetic genesis. The improvement of indices studied was observed in patients with neuropathies. Interval hypoxic training may be recommended for the treatment of distal neuropathies including the patients with IIDM in the state of compensation.