DENTAL CARIES AWARENESS AND RISK ASSESSMENT IN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS OF GEORGIAN UNIVERSITIES.

Dental caries development in students depends on many factors. Our research aims at studying the dependence of the incidence of caries among foreigners residing in Georgia on caries awareness and behaviors Oral health status of the study population was assessed using the caries intensity DMFT index offered by the World Health Organization (WHO). Patients were divided into two groups, according to the DMFT Index, with the first group comprising patients with low and very low DMFT index, and the second group - with moderate and high (<2,6) (>2,7) DMFT index.

[CHANGES OF SALIVARY CORTISOL LEVELS IN CHILDREN WITH CHRONIC GINGIVITIS].

Periodontal diseases are widespread in children and adolescents. By the information of World Health Organization, 80% of children have different degrees of inflammatory periodontal diseases, that often develop from the ages of 10-11 years. Pathology of periodontal tissues is developed when there is a disproportional growth and development of tissue structure, as within the system, also in the systems and structures that provide entire organism, which itself supplements the development of periodontal diseases in juveniles.

[EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND PATHOGENETIC PECULIARITIES OF DENTAL CARIES IN ADOLESCENTS].

The goal of this study was to determine the spread and intensity of dental caries in the adolescents and study the characteristics of damage to create the unified method of prognosis and development risk level of the aforementioned pathology. Impact of risk factors on the mineralization of hard tissue of tooth was studied in the 381 adolescents aged 11-16. The study found that dental caries spread among the research group was high, with the 77.