[Peculiarities of the use of surgical preauricular approach to TMJ in cases of traumas].

Preauricular approach to the temporomandibular joint is the ideal approach in patients with high mandibular condyle fractures and for most arthroplastic procedures. The article presents indications and our modifications of this surgical procedures. Clinical example of surgical treatment of the perforation of the meniscus by preauricular approach is also presented in the article.

[Time of permanent teeth eruption in schoolchildren of Saint-Petersburg]. / Sroki prorezyvaniia postoiannykh zubov u shkol'nikov Sankt-Peterburga.

The terms of permanent teeth eruption were analyzed in 909 children (permanent residents of St. Petersburg) aged 7-15 years. The study showed that all groups of permanent teeth, except the first molars, erupted on the mandible earlier than on the maxilla. In girls only canines and second molars erupted earlier than in boys. There was virtually no sex-specific difference in the terms of eruption of both premolars, and the terms of the end of eruption of both groups of canines were virtually the same in boys and girls. Twenty-one children lacked some of permanent teeth by 15 years (the age considered as the upper threshold level for the end of normal tooth eruption). The most frequent teeth that failed to erupt in time were the upper lateral canines (33.3% of all teeth which failed to erupt by the age of 15 years), lower central canines and upper first premolars and molars (12.8% each).

[The effect of clofelin on the pain syndrome in mandibular trauma]. / Vliianie klofelina na bolevoi sindrom pri travme nizhnei cheliusti.

Oral clopheline (0.000075) noticeably alleviates the pain syndrome and circulatory hyperdynamic state of patients with mandibular fracture. The agent is superior to the conventional combination of 50% analgin (2 ml) and 1% dimedrolum (1 ml) in its efficiency and duration of action.