Results of electropuncture testing in patients with salivary stone disease

The aim of the study was to determine the informative value of electropuncture testing in patients with salivary stone disease.

Objects and methods. The study was performed at the clinical bases of the Department of Surgical Dentistry of the educational institution «Belarusian State Medical University». Using electropuncture testing, 74 patients aged 2558 years (the main group) with diagnosis of salivary stone disease of the submandibular salivary gland were examined. The control group was represented by 30 practically healthy persons. The data obtained during the survey were subjected to statistical processing using the application software package «Statistica 10.0».

At the end of the study, the diagnostic effectiveness of electropuncture testing was determined. 

Results. Functional deviations of auricular points corresponding to the function of the endocrine glands, kidneys 46%, and the excretory system 30% were determined in 41% of patients. In 3% of patients, there were no changes in these systems and organs that can affect the metabolic processes of the body. In addition, 3% of the patient had significant functional abnormalities in organ systems that did not affect metabolic processes.

Conclusion. Electropuncture testing has a diagnostic efficiency of 98% in the analysis of organs and systems responsible for and involved in metabolic processes in patients suffering from salivary stone disease and allows at least 49% of observations to reliably (for two or more interested organ systems) identify metabolic disorders in individuals of this category which is an indirect confirmation of one of the links in the pathogenesis of the disease under study.

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