Periodontal Condition of the Patients with Decreased Lower Facial Height

Sergei Arutjunov, Sofia Kraveishvili, Anatoli Arutjunov, 
Dmitri Krogovikh, George Babunashvili

Department of General Stomatology, Moscow State Medical-Stomatological University, Russia

Results of the periodontal tissue condition studies are given in this work, when height of the lower face is reduced. A total of 186 patients aged 40 to 65 with decreased lower facial height were investigated and treated orthopedically. From them, in 122 patients were found pathological changes of marginal periodont. The general principles of the prosthodontic treatment are the following: to restore the height of the bite, normalization of the chewing muscles function and mandibular condition, to achieve equal contact between upper and lower teeth along dental arches. Distant results of treatment from 1 to 4 years turned to be good in 177 (95,1%) patients, who had periodontal pathological process before treatment was stabilized (by clinical and x-ray exams). Signs of decreased lower facial height disappeared.

Keywords:  bioethics, gene therapy, eugenics, human population, mono-gene diseases, gene mutation, human genome, multi-factor pathologies