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M Barańska-Gachowska

Publications and source records attributed to M Barańska-Gachowska.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1990

[Prophylactic filling and treatment of initial stages of caries].

The paper presents new concepts of caries treatment, stressing that the condition of its acceptance is a high level of health consciousness of the patient, warranting a close cooperation with the dentists for controlling this widespread disease. The author thinks that the most important methods of treatment available in world stomatology may be divided in three groups: I--prophylactic, with filling preventively the sites predisposed to the development of caries, II--treatment of initial stages of caries, III--treatment of advanced caries with loss of hard tissues of teeth. The necessity is stressed of more intense, more widespread and more systematic than presently raising of the health consciousness of our population, for detection and treatment of initial--reversible stages of caries, prophylactic filling of fissures and sulci in the freshly erupted teeth, depending on economic possibilities.

Dental Caries↗
PubMed1989

[Clinical classification of traumatic dental injuries].

In the world stomatological literature many more or less extensive clinical classification of posttraumatic damage to teeth are available. In the Polish stomatological school Ellis classification is used most frequently. However, this classification comprising nine classes of traumatic teeth damage is not sufficiently precise in the descriptions qualifying various classes. Moreover, the successive classes are not always logically arranged depending on the degree of damage. In view of this, the author has evolved another clinical classification of traumatic dental damage based on own clinical material and other classifications. The new classification is used in the Department of Developmental Age Stomatology in Zabrze. The base of the classification is the degree of damage to the dental tissues and the used therapeutic methods. Two-year experience with the classification showed that it is simple, sufficiently precise and easy for application by students and stomatologists.

Humans↗
PubMed1989

[Activity of certain salivary enzymes in school children exposed to excessive concentrations of lead and cadmium].

The purpose of the study was assessment of the effect of an environment contaminated with heavy metals on the activity of certain enzymes of mixed saliva. The activity was determined of total acid phosphatase and phosphatase resistant to tartrate and formaldehyde, alkaline phosphatase, alanine and aspartate aminotransferase, and alpha-amylase. The studied material comprised 110 saliva samples obtained from three groups of children aged 8 years. Group I of 21 children lived in Szopienice, group II of 30 children lived in Miasteczko Slaskie. In both these localities the children were exposed to mean daily concentrations, above the permitted ones, mainly of lead compounds, in lower degree to cadmium and zinc compounds. Environment contamination in Szopienice was greater than in Miasteczko Slaskie. Group III of 59 children living in Lubowice served as controls. In that town the permissible concentrations of these compounds were not exceeded. Statistical analysis of these results showed that the activity of total acid phosphatase in groups I and II, that is in the contaminated areas, was highly significantly greater than in the control group. The activity of alkaline phosphatase was raised only in the saliva in group I. No differences were found in the activity of alpha-amylase and aminotransferases.

Acid Phosphatase↗