DENTAL DISEASES PREVENTION AND TREATMENT AMONG FOREIGN STUDENTS FROM DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE WORLD

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420 foreign first year students of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia from different regions of the world were examined for oral health status. The main dental indexes were analyzed and recommendations for dental diseases prevention and treatment were given for each region group. For students from Africa the leading direction is caries prevention. Students from Middle East and Latin America need in caries treatment and endodontic treatment. The main problem of students from Asia is periodontal diseases.

 

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I. M. Makeeva

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Russian Federation

Author for correspondence.
Email: irina_makeeva@inbox.ru
доктор медицинских наук, профессор, заведующая кафедрой терапевтической стома- тологии ГБОУ ВПО «Первый МГМУ им. И.М. Сеченова» МЗ РФ Адрес: Москва, ул. Трубецкая, д. 8, стр. 2; тел.: (499) 248-34-57 Россия

F. Yu. Daurova

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation

Email: 7338246@mail.ru
кандидат медицинских наук, заведующая кафедрой терапевтической стоматологии ГБОУ ВПО «Российский университет дружбы народов» Адрес: Москва, ул. Миклухо-Маклая, д. 8, к. 1; тел.: (495) 433-27-94 Россия

N. V. Pyatigorskaya

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Russian Federation

Email: irina_makeeva@inbox.ru
доктор фармацевтических наук, профессор, заместитель директора по научной работе НИИ фармации ГБОУ ВПО «Первый МГМУ им. И.М. Сеченова» МЗ РФ Адрес: Москва, ул. Трубецкая, д. 8, стр. 2; тел.: (499) 128-57-55 Россия

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