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In a total of 49 patients, of which 7 were controls, and the other had chronic superficial parodonthopathies, deep chronic mixed parodontopathies and gingivitis, a quantitative analysis was done of microelements from the dental plaque. Neutron activation analysis, chemical and chromatographic methods were used for evidencing the presence of Fe, Mn, Zn, Mg, Co, Ca, Na, and K ions in the dental plaque. Significant changes were noted with regard to the Fe, Zn, and Ca contents of the dental plaque in patients with deep and mixed parodonthopathies. In the patients with gingivitis high Mn and Na concentrations were found and low Mg and K ion contents. Cobalt in the dental plaque was within normal limits in all the patients. Changes of the microelements in the dental plaque are useful for clinical laboratories in view of detecting at an early stage the development of pathological processes which occur in the buccal cavity.
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Placa Dental/química , Oligoelementos/análisis , Humanos , Análisis de Activación de Neutrones , Enfermedades PeriodontalesRESUMEN
One of the current question in this field is that of the possibility for parodontal disease to be an autoimmune disease. There is no clear answer as yet in the specialized literature, and no coherent and complete concepts. Starting from the existing data the authors have carried out immunological studies in patients with parodontal disease, considering the chronic, recidivating aspects of this disturbance, even after a complex therapy, and removal of pathological structures. They attempted to investigate the autoimmune components of the disease, and have employed immunofluorescent techniques of the indirect type for the study of gingival fragments without lesions obtained from patients with parodontopathies. The data obtained have demonstrated, besides the presence at the surface of the epithelium of stable immune complexes, that could be the effect of bacterial antigenic material, and cell fluorescence in the epithelium and the chorion, a fluorescence that was superposed on the respective tissue architecture. These data suggest implication of autoimmune mechanism in parodontal disease, and can explain, in the frame of the clinical aspects of chronic marginal parodontopathies, the auto-aggressive character, and the self-maintenance of these processes in certain conditions, even when an adequate therapy has been applied.
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Enfermedades Periodontales/etiología , Enfermedades Autoinmunes , Técnica del Anticuerpo Fluorescente , HumanosRESUMEN
The authors discuss the use of acupuncture in the treatment of chronic mixed marginal parodontopathies as an eventual means of bioenergetic reequilibration. The various studies carried out for some time by the Department of Odontology and Parodontology of the Bucharest Faculty of Stomatology have demonstrated the lateration of electrical bioresistance in certain acupuncture points in the cephalic extremity at the level of the gingival mucosa in pathologic parodontal states. This suggested the possible applicability in chronic mixed marginal parodontopathies of acupuncture instead of the known means of biostimulation.